In Appreciation Of Pidgin
There was a time when instant messaging was dominated by two clients: AIM and ICQ. They both over the years developed feature creep, or feature bloat, becoming lumbering behemoths full of abilities well beyond the scope of Instant Messaging and in my opinion beyond the scope of sanity and usefulness.
Nevertheless, I have friends. Yes, I’ll pause a moment and let that sink in. Those friends sometimes like to contact me, communicate with me, and perhaps even interact with me in real life. These are people I like to talk to, and for a while I was content using whatever the officially-blessed client was for the protocol they were on. Okay, maybe I didn’t always have the latest version, but it was still AIM, Yahoo or ICQ branded.
Then I discovered GAIM. It was a multi-protocol messaging client that connected to all the services simultaneously, and even let me log in to multiple accounts on the same service. It was awesome, so of course AOL didn’t like it. After all, AOL has shown itself over the years to be rather allergic to awesome.
Thankfully the project didn’t die, and simply renamed itself to Pidgin
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