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  Apple Picking On The Little Guy (iPodder Lemon) As reported at ZDNet.co.uk, publishers of the open source podcasting tool iPodder Lemon have been forced to change the name of their application due to pressure from Apple's legal department.

Apple's legal team asked the company to drop the name as it suggested an affiliation with their iPod device. Since that time the application has been renamed to Juice.

Scott Grayban, a developer of Juice, expressed his disapproval stating, "It's disappointing to see a large company such as Apple go after a small open source project, and just shortly after we had over 1 million downloads."

A web posting following the change expressed different sentiments. Garth T Kidd indicated, "Fortunately for us, Apple's lawyers were polite almost to the point of being apologetic — and entirely reasonable. It's not appropriate for me to go into the details of our arrangement but I can say I don't feel hard done by. Sure I wouldn't have minded not having to change our name, but that couldn't really be avoided"

Apple has not commented on the incident.

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