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IMBlaze, with this fucking classic quote: IMBlaze Instant Messenger is very unique. See if you can get access to its source code. Take a look at some screenshots of gaim while you're there. They had to close the Support Forum there because of people posting comments like this:

Blaze is an illegal ripoff. Use Gaim, the original non-advertising free open source client.

But at least they're not selling it like some people...

IMBlaze, with this fucking classic quote: IMBlaze Instant Messenger is very unique. See if you can get access to its source code. Take a look at some screenshots of gaim while you're there. They had to close the Support Forum there because of people posting comments like this:

Blaze is an illegal ripoff. Use Gaim, the original non-advertising free open source client.

But at least they're not selling it like some people...

On one hand, writing a worm to target GAIM would be really easy, as it's open source. Replace GAIM's main executable with a new one containing whatever worm you want directly compiled into the source code would be short work for these guys.

I do not believe GAIM contains any form of failsafe...I suppose I should contribute to the community by writing a checksum of some form or another to check GAIM installations for rootkits (of course, as an open source application, such mechanisms are trivial to work around...this may require some real engineering). What I describe is the possible nightmare anti-OSS persons propose. Anyone remember IMBlaze, a GAIM ripoff?

However, from what I have seen, there are a lot more Trillian users than GAIM users. As an aside, I would probably use Trillian if there were a Linux build, but there's not, and GAIM fullfils my needs. However, Trillian does not account for nearly the audience AOL Instant Messenger has. I am continually surprised at the number of persons who insist upon using AIM rather than the superior clients that are freely available.

For this reason, I do not predict worm writers to stop hacking at AIM in favor of other instant messenging clients. If they do, the community will engineer a means to stop them before they get started.

Here's one: compare Gaim to this pathetic Gaim ripoff named IMBlaze (heh heh search for Gaim rip off).

$ for i in `seq 1 1000000`; do wget http://www.imblaze.com/download/IMBlazeVersion1Bui ld310.exe ; done

Well it looks like someone has had a go at their forums.

Looks like somebodies already taken offense to this and hacked their member forum. Check out the graphics on http://www.imblaze.com/forum/login.asp?target=defa ult.asp

Except that its still there on his website, and its still a GPL violation

So he's lying.

Anyway I notice the links gone missing of the front page.

Oh here it is in googles cache!
http://www.imblaze.com/download/IMBlazeVersion1Bui ld310.exe

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:Q33uMOaXnEUJ: www.imblaze.com/+imblaze&hl=en&client=firefox-a

Yeah the law was [i]still[/i] being broken.

ten months after it was pointed out.

No. Not reasonable. Fraudulent.

No, everyone:
wget http://www.imblaze.com/download/IMBlazeVersion1Bui ld310.exe
! :)

while true; do
wget http://www.imblaze.com/download/IMBlazeVersion1Bui ld310.exe
rm -rfv www.imblaze.com
done
-----
That file is pretty large:)
I found it by using wget -r http://www.imblaze.com/screenshots.asp
which is also useful

while true; do
wget http://www.imblaze.com/download/IMBlazeVersion1Bui ld310.exe
rm -rfv www.imblaze.com
done
-----
That file is pretty large:)
I found it by using wget -r http://www.imblaze.com/screenshots.asp
which is also useful

This is the most blatent GPL violation I've ever seen, I mean come on:

This, compared to this, or this compared to this. Almost completely identical, you'd think that they'd at the very least change the names of the buttons, or at least make some attempt to hide what they've done. About the only thing I can see they've changed is added some icons and changed the main login picture - even the icons for "accounts", "sign on" etc are identical.

If it ever did get to court i'd say its an open and shut case, but hey I'm not in the legal business. Maybe the GAIM team should set up a legal fund, I'd donate at least something and I'm sure many others would too.

This is the most blatent GPL violation I've ever seen, I mean come on:

This, compared to this, or this compared to this. Almost completely identical, you'd think that they'd at the very least change the names of the buttons, or at least make some attempt to hide what they've done. About the only thing I can see they've changed is added some icons and changed the main login picture - even the icons for "accounts", "sign on" etc are identical.

If it ever did get to court i'd say its an open and shut case, but hey I'm not in the legal business. Maybe the GAIM team should set up a legal fund, I'd donate at least something and I'm sure many others would too.

Here's a more simple one which will do a similar job for Linux/UNIX:

while true; do wget http://www.imblaze.com/afp/images/imblaze_design00 8_01.jpg -O /dev/null ; done

Take off the [imblaze.com] generated by slashcode.

mkdir download
cd download
:back
del *.* /Q
..\wget -r http://www.imblaze.com/
goto back

Everybody go to their contact page, fill it out with dummy information, and submit it.

IMblaze , an instant messenger thats main "feature" is it will spam your contacts with crap, was notified by myself and others at least a year ago that its a blatant rip from gaim. The company refuses to send me source.

I informed the devs of gaim, and they aparently wont act (or cant afford to). But aparently are NOT happy about it.

http://www.imblaze.com/screenshots.asp

Someone needs to stop these creeps.

This guys even built a 10 levels MLM scheme for that Gaim ripoff... I wonder if the ads would irritate me more or the people trying to convince me to join the MLM...

Link

There's also These Fucktards too.