[dundee] Gaim Vs AOL -

[James Le Cuirot]

Yeah but guess what Meebo uses as its backend. (-;

Chewi


On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 22:46:19 +0100
azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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