Gaim becomes Pidgin

Gaim becomes Pidgin

Posted Apr 9, 2007 12:20 UTC (Mon) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Gaim becomes Pidgin by hp
Parent article: Gaim becomes Pidgin

This may be so, but the AOL Lawyers "accepted" the name "gaim" as avoiding their trademark "AOL Instant Messenger". So in some sense AOL tacitly accepted an in-use mark which conflicted with one they later registered. It's possible this is not a strong legal argument, but to me it's bad faith.

And certainly when you look at the AOL lawyer brigade practices over the years, I see a whole bunch of deplorable activity. (offtopic:) It saddens me that in order to get acceptable treatment, these humans (developers) had to create a corporation. Normal people, real humans, seemingly cannot get justice in our system.

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