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[David Minton <dminton AT mindspring.com>]

Isn't this about the time Apple added the "Sosumi" alert sound? It may just
be one of those urban legends, but it always sounded like "so sue me" to me.

David

On 6/27/01 12:44 PM, "Simon Spero" <ses AT tipper.oit.unc.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Gina Norman wrote:
> 
>>> Tell that to apple
>> 
>> Actually, if I remember correctly from my J-school days, the rules around
>> trademarks explicitly state that there must be potential for confusion
> 
> Apple vs. Apple was one of the major pieces of case law in the field;
> as a result of the lawsuit, Apple Computer stopped putting hardware
> synthesis chips in its computers, and made some other changes that sound
> really silly now:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/dev/techsupport/develop/issue28/vetneo.html
> 
> <<At some point in the distant past, Apple Computer reached an agreement
> with the Beatle's record company, Apple Records, that allowed Apple
> Computer to use the name "Apple" so long as it did not engage in certain
> markets, such as music recording. At some later point in the distant past,
> Apple Records sued Apple Computer, alleging certain violations of that
> agreement. Suddenly, the lawyers at Apple Computer were intensely
> interested in the sound and music capabilities of the Macintosh hardware
> and system software.
> 
> At that moment, I happened to be finishing up the Sound Manager chapter of
> Inside Macintosh Volume VI. Apple's lawyers decided that a number of API
> elements smacked too much of music and needed therefore to be changed. For
> instance, it was thought that since music is composed of individual notes,
> the word note should not occur anywhere in the documentation in any
> sound-related sense. As a result, what was hitherto known as the noteCmd
> constant was changed to freqDurationCmd (the idea being that playing a
> note is just playing a frequency for a specific duration). The legal
> department demanded a number of other changes, which led to some
> last-minute rewriting and reindexing as the book neared publication. And,
> of course, the engineers had to issue new header files to reflect the new
> names.>>
> 
> 
> 
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