Brøderbund Software, Inc.

The company name comes from the Afrikaner Broederbund, a South African secret organisation with close ties to the apartheid government. According to Brøderbund co-founder Gary Carlston, Doug Carlston was familiar with the organisation from the time he spent in Botswana during the sixties and adopted the name out of reactionary reasons. They changed "oe" into the Swedish letter "ø" to give it a friendlier touch.

Contributed by Patrick Bregger.