My company is planning to release the Java-based hardware design verification environment I created over the last year and a half under an open source license. We’ve been calling it JavaDV internally, but figure we’ll have to pick a new name so that Sun doesn’t jump all over us for infringing on their aggressively protected Java trademark. Of the many names we’ve brainstormed, the one that really makes me chuckle is Jihad, which could stand for something like Java Integrated Hardware Analysis and Debugging. The tagline writes itself: “Declare Holy War on Bugs!”