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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"
Blah.
This is getting really old.
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(Non-cross platform plug)
It's called AdiumX, and it's easily the best IM client I've ever used (also, built off of libgaim (I mean, libpurple (easily the most disappointing name in all this name change))). Alas, it's only for OS X. If you ever pick up an OS X box, do yourself a favour, and pick it up.
It's a terrible name. What is it with open source projects and lame names? Linux would be WAY more popular if geeks would just ditch the gibberish and release stuff that was easy and fun to say. Take Perl for example, it reminds geeks of a certain feminine part, so all they can do is blather on how great it is. "Real men code in Perl." "I'm a Perl master!" Etc, etc... See? Easy and fun to say, and your get to establish your geeky manliness by saying it. Now try to think if something clever to say about "Pidgin". Sucks huh?
Mod this person up! This is the first post on this subject that I read that made me feel better!
Seriously!
Dear Moderators,
The parent post was, in my opinion, very informative. In fact, I would say that it was little else besides informative. It was definitely not interesting.