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Gaim Renamed — Now Pidgin IM
An anonymous reader writes "Announced on the Gaim mailing lists earlier today, the Gaim project is being renamed. This follows a lengthy and, unfortunately, secret legal process with AOL, which also prevented any code releases except betas. The project will now be known as Pidgin IM. Development is being migrated off of sourceforge.net as well and is now being hosted on developer.pidgin.im"
IM-speak is a lot like a pidgin language.
Pidgeoned him!
God spoke to me.
I for one welcome our new pigeon overlords.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Tomorrow's headlines:
"AOL Instant Messenger changes name to Idgin"
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Ixnay on the amenay angechay!
Yes.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T569Z8t8ZA0
God Fucking Damnit
PIGOWNED!
"a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
Not if they called it a stenchblossom.
"I think so, Brain, but 'instant karma' always gets so lumpy." - Pinky
"Decepticons FOREVER!!!" - Ravage
You can't change the world on an empty stomach, or something like that anyway.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Do they think this is some kind of GAIM?
does this mean it'll add, "Yah" at the end of all of my IMs?
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
...I immediately thought of Voltron instead of a bird. Doh.
BytesTemplar.com
Are you suggesting that my new mail program called "Hey Boss I Fucked Your Wife" should be renamed? It's a perfectly good name I think.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Actually, it's a good name for AOL's IM program. Because whenever I tried to use it, I get the feeling that the computer would waddle over and take a dump on my shoes.
He is jesting, but don't call him "Shirley."
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
I'm sorry, did you just suggest people watch two hours of Richard Stallman on a Saturday night? Dear god, I know this is Slashdot but let's not go too far.
Slashdot - where whining about luck is the new way to make the world you want.
How do you rattle a flag?
My only political goal is to see to it that no political party achieves its goals.
Morons 1 - Dumbasses 0
Yay!
(pwned)
Did the contract also specify that they use the dumbest possible name instead? Honestly. Shoulda called it Chazwozzer IM.
You shake it until the cloth and adornments goes "Whipssh-Whipssh" on the pole. :P Okay, this is Slashdot, maybe I should have used a car analogy... /end offtopic
PIMP???
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
Pidgin IM? That's the worst thing I've ever seen a piece of software be called. Pidgin. Pronounced like "pigeon?" Pigeons shit on everything, eat anything, will explode if exposed to the right conditions*, are ugly, loud, awkward, and worst of all, ubiquitous in their space. Is that really what they want their software associated with? Why not just called it Useless Trash Eating Shit Machine IM?
*plop, plop, fizz fizz, oh what a surprise it is to find that birds have no built-in way of expelling that much gas all at once. boom.**
**that's a joke, obviously.
BUT I WOULDNT BE ABLE TO POST ON THE INTERWEB IF IT WAZNT FOR AOL!!!1
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
Even though I was snarky in my opinion in the choice of naming, the meaning of the word "pidgin" was not totally fucking lost on me. I still think it's a poor choice.
I apologize for insulting your haughty sense of elegance with my great unwashedness.
Will it be compliant with RFC 1149?
More like: "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
I'd probably go for the name GINFA: Gaim Is Not Fucking AIM!
http://notanumber.net/
1) AOL objects to a program called "GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger"
2) The program changed the name to Gaim.
3) AOL trademarks AIM
4) AOL starts complaining about the name Gaim.
5) Gaim changes name to Pidgin.
6) AOL trademarks Pidgeon...
That would be very coo. I'm all a flutter for it!
...and that's the way the cookie crumbles.