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GAIM becomes Pidgin IM

GAIMAfter a long and drawn out legal dispute with AOL over its name, the developers of the open-source instant messenger client GAIM have agreed to change the program's name.

The program, which allows users to send and receive message with AOL, MSN, Yahoo! and other IM services, began its life as GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger. AOL wasn't too happy with that, and the developers changed the name to AIM. After AOL trademarked the name AIM, GAIM heard from this blog's parent company again.

Thus the new name, Pidgin IM. The project is also moving from Sourceforge, and has a new developer page. The settlement also means that a non-beta version of Pidgin IM could be on its way soon.

[via Slashdot]

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