From: Thomas C. M. <to...@pl...> - 2002-09-14 15:01:55
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, It occured to me that Gaim has outgrown its name. I propose two things: #1 Change GAIM's name to GUIM. GUIM standing for Grand Unified Instant Messenger. #2 More readily package the various IM plugins along with GAIM, er GUIM. :) I think both of these moves will more widely spread Gaim's adoption. Regards, Tom - -- $Id: .sig,v 1.17 2002/08/21 13:12:32 tom Exp $ pub 1024D/87F1C20F 2001-11-15 Thomas C. Meggs <to...@pl...> Key fingerprint = 5E9A D535 B9DA A889 984B 9654 2025 409B 87F1 C20F "It was funny with coffee. Sometimes it did nothing for him, and actually made him weak. But sometimes it really made him feel like God." - from "Miguel", short story by Dan Bern -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUBPYNPWQZIFEaahkDtAQJySg/9Gr4X1ANfwDvOnQ6wZHI6YQrkttw2NR/O snVwYH1sbptGv4dh6l3ZeP+eF3VE+GfQEP+63XVW8N1z+JTDhufo8kjr2U3nQSzB 0MY/EtUBAJtvPuXVB6jSx0JzrLdcJKYuW+/8muqFha2QliCLgRHatn1sK06TL46/ RPhh0er90XeHV9nRHsUyqSKMhEbyRHOIYRiYvv0+eShdQlIjL+uwG6bUi6wOacHQ XnaDxuvDlo1pQ7WfjKEmKfdAoQ2TDwZNCqmeH35r55Z6VAnZAEsZXITYDKozztpu VzNSFRiigUSC1Ea2MJqN9oWs1yyWmPDgzwt1h5pQwyY1aNehiYf+Nt4JAIweii0K P8WZwntf+g2rIwAEt5SqakgC/o8zYCeWjkTvttrq9ty0qLW5mYX8i6UhnjpMHkNH xZnDwY2hxS4SML49PDY1u2UnYTPks44o5EKooJI5x8mnKY7LMe44sN79soVHKUJh wDIPuJvqPBhNaTZJS4lhJxx4opmtC+8qXIX3rIA569bUfs9qePxWLuF+tOW8ZeDh /pjlb4J3DtiPeRynIsOoz6nswNFGoz74TfX5pD83AKBgQEifVYmYMB4mnJSFvSIG iiyrTk7U+ORnZSK32F2FR7NFm2M6dRIMD0NLGFHmTiSnrPubrWutpNbCa0JSGr77 Hw19qzQyp5A= =XSfW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Christian H. <ch...@gn...> - 2002-09-14 18:03:14
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On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 11:01:48AM -0400, Thomas C. Meggs wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > It occured to me that Gaim has outgrown its name. I propose two things: > > #1 Change GAIM's name to GUIM. GUIM standing for Grand Unified Instant > Messenger. > > #2 More readily package the various IM plugins along with GAIM, er GUIM. :) > > I think both of these moves will more widely spread Gaim's adoption. > > Regards, > Tom This is an old subject. 1) Gaim does NOT stand for anything anymore, except Gaim's An Instant Messenger, or Gaim's An Immediate Messenger, but that's unofficial. 2) It's not GAIM. It's gaim or Gaim. 3) People know the Gaim name. Changing it wouldn't be a great idea. 4) Guim sounds so ugly. I'd be forced to fork GUIM and name it Gaim. 5) I don't think we need a name change to get more users. We have a LOT of people who use this software, and we're about to have a lot more, since we now have a Windows alpha out. Christian -- Christian Hammond <> The GNUpdate Project ch...@gn... <> http://www.gnupdate.org/ Brain fried -- Core dump |
From: Sean E. <bj...@bi...> - 2002-09-14 18:12:33
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I think you certainly have a point that Gaim's name is somewhat misleading--but people have donated thousands of dollars and our lawyers have been working hard for about a year now protecting the name. I think it'll be around for a while. -s. On Sat, 2002-09-14 at 14:03, Christian Hammond wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2002 at 11:01:48AM -0400, Thomas C. Meggs wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi, > > > > It occured to me that Gaim has outgrown its name. I propose two things: > > > > #1 Change GAIM's name to GUIM. GUIM standing for Grand Unified Instant > > Messenger. > > > > #2 More readily package the various IM plugins along with GAIM, er GUIM. :) > > > > I think both of these moves will more widely spread Gaim's adoption. > > > > Regards, > > Tom > > This is an old subject. > > 1) Gaim does NOT stand for anything anymore, except Gaim's An Instant > Messenger, or Gaim's An Immediate Messenger, but that's unofficial. > > 2) It's not GAIM. It's gaim or Gaim. > > 3) People know the Gaim name. Changing it wouldn't be a great idea. > > 4) Guim sounds so ugly. I'd be forced to fork GUIM and name it Gaim. > > 5) I don't think we need a name change to get more users. We have a > LOT of people who use this software, and we're about to have a lot > more, since we now have a Windows alpha out. > > Christian > > -- > Christian Hammond <> The GNUpdate Project > ch...@gn... <> http://www.gnupdate.org/ > Brain fried -- Core dump > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Gaim-devel mailing list > Gai...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gaim-devel > |