[dundee] Gaim Vs AOL -

[Arron Finnon]

Hi Guys,

just read an interesting story about the IM favourite GAIM.  I was 
completely unaware but then again I'm far from being all knowing, but the 
GAIM team have been in an on going legal argument with the nice people at 
AOHell (oh sorry did i say that out load, i meant AOL).

Apparently when the GAIM team first started out they where called “GTK+ AOL 
Instant Messenger”, which i suppose is kinda asking for a legal argument but 
then again i don't think they thought that they end up being as popular IM 
for it to be that bigger a deal.  Well AOL was non to pleased so they 
changed the project name to GAIM which seemed to settle the issue down for 
awhile, and then AOL started using the term AIM to describe their IM service 
and guess what started again.  Well I'll get to the point now after years of 
quite legal wrangling (which was advised by the nice fella's at gaim's legal 
team) GAIM will now be known as Pidgin and can be found here 
http://pidgin.im/

So the question i'm kinda left asking is a.) why on earth was it so 
necessary for the GAIM team to go through this in quiet and b.) is GAIM such 
a threat to AOL and their AIM service.  So guys just thought that it would 
be of intrest to someone on “The List” as i imagine there is one or two GAIM 
users, myself i'm a Kopete fan myself.

Arron

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