Gaim becomes Pidgin

Gaim becomes Pidgin

Posted Apr 9, 2007 3:31 UTC (Mon) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)
Parent article: Gaim becomes Pidgin

I am the only one that thinks that they should have done this much earlier?

Even if Gaim had the name since 1999 (as one poster said above, I can't corraborate it), AOL's product had a much bigger fame since they started calling it AIM, 1 year after (again, according to the above post).
Add to that that Gaim was an AIM-service client and not the other way around.
It's not like AOL needed to steal a name to have a famous IM service...

The Gaim developers should have changed a name when it was early. Everyone would know Gaim now by its new name, we would have a saner release schedule, probably a better product since the developers would have more time in their hands -- not to mention that they wouldn't have spent so much money on this.

I wouldn't say the same if some big company decided to name a new operating system "ENTOO" but in this case, I think the Gaim developers went too far with this.
Judging from the program, they're excellent developers and reverse-engineers. Their time is better spent doing what they know to do best and without worrying that one of the biggests corporations in the world will sue their ass off.

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