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Bohmian.org - Discussion - Pidgin is the instant messaging client formerly known as Gaim - m
m joined January 13, 2008 (logged-in March 11, 2020) <beez> Bitching where bitching is due -- and often where it is not.
m
posted December 29, 2009
The official reason for renaming
Gaim to
Pidgin is that
America Online was unhappy. While this might very well have been the case it is also equally likely that the modern developers realized that the current version of the software was such a pile of crap that they didn't want to detract from what was once considered a rather decent messaging client.