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Gaim, I believe it was AOL that made them change their name to Pidgin. Pidgin lives on and AIM is fading into history.
by KGIII 9y ago
Gaim, I believe it was AOL that made them change their name to Pidgin. Pidgin lives on and AIM is fading into history.
- Macha 9y agoThe networks that pidgin supports are slowly dying off though.
- chipx86 9y agoThey tried for many years to get us to change the name, but it never came down to any real legal battles of any sort. The name change occurred after I left the project, but I think it was a conscious choice on the project's end to finally change the name, give it a new identity. (Someone from Pidgin correct me if I'm wrong -- I was pretty out of the loop during that time period.)