Linked by Adam S on Sun 8th Apr 2007 18:13 UTC
Gaim, the ubiquitous open source instant messaging program, in order to settle a lawsuit with America Online, was renamed "Pidgin" last week. The derivative projects, libgaim and gaim-text will be renamed libpurple and Finch respectively. The new website is at pigdin.im, but it's currently pointing to the Gaim sourceforge site. Pidgin 2.0.0, in development for well over a year, is expected this week.
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Member since:
2007-02-26
you wrote:
Do you remember a popular browser called Phoenix that was renamed Firebird later? Many users don't even remeber those earlier names anymore, yet the name change to Firefox caused a great deal of noise among its users during the time of change.
Not sure this example is exactly analogous -- the user base grew most significantly _after_ the name was changed to firefox. Imagine if the name were to change today from firefox to blackbird. A lot of users would be confused and it would take longer than you might think to get the word out.
Case in point: Wireshark is the new, maintained ethereal. I bump into a lot of folks who didn't know that, even though it was announced almost a year ago.