i prefer <a href="http://www.meebo.com">http://www.meebo.com</a> website as it works anywhere.<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/8/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Le Cuirot</b> <<a href="mailto:chewi@aura-online.co.uk">
chewi@aura-online.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Wow I thought that whole debacle was ancient history. I think there is,
<br>or at least there used to be, an official AIM Linux client but still,<br>the whole thing is pretty stupid. Oh well. What's in a name anyway?<br><br>Chewi<br><br><br>On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:51:15 +0100<br>"Arron Finnon" <
<a href="mailto:arron.finnon@hotmail.co.uk">arron.finnon@hotmail.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br>> Hi Guys,<br>><br>> just read an interesting story about the IM favourite GAIM. I was<br>> completely unaware but then again I'm far from being all knowing, but
<br>> the GAIM team have been in an on going legal argument with the nice<br>> people at AOHell (oh sorry did i say that out load, i meant AOL).<br>><br>> Apparently when the GAIM team first started out they where
<br>> called "GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger", which i suppose is kinda asking<br>> for a legal argument but then again i don't think they thought that<br>> they end up being as popular IM for it to be that bigger a deal.
<br>> Well AOL was non to pleased so they changed the project name to GAIM<br>> which seemed to settle the issue down for awhile, and then AOL<br>> started using the term AIM to describe their IM service and guess
<br>> what started again. Well I'll get to the point now after years of<br>> quite legal wrangling (which was advised by the nice fella's at<br>> gaim's legal team) GAIM will now be known as Pidgin and can be found
<br>> here <a href="http://pidgin.im/">http://pidgin.im/</a><br>><br>> So the question i'm kinda left asking is a.) why on earth was it so<br>> necessary for the GAIM team to go through this in quiet and b.) is
<br>> GAIM such a threat to AOL and their AIM service. So guys just<br>> thought that it would be of intrest to someone on "The List" as i<br>> imagine there is one or two GAIM users, myself i'm a Kopete fan
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