[dundee] Gaim Vs AOL -

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i prefer http://www.meebo.com website as it works anywhere.



On 4/8/07, James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Wow I thought that whole debacle was ancient history. I think there is,
> or at least there used to be, an official AIM Linux client but still,
> the whole thing is pretty stupid. Oh well. What's in a name anyway?
>
> Chewi
>
>
> On Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:51:15 +0100
> "Arron Finnon" <arron.finnon at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > 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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