Gaim forced to change name, on a trademark registered after they started the project.

Gaim.sourceforge.net is now redirected to pidgin.im. Several of my friends have already informed me that Gaim has been forced to change it's name because AOL is being a whiner.

A quote from their news release regarding the name change.

"Our legal support has changed several times, and each group of lawyers have recommended silence & secrecy. Around the time of Gaim's first 2.0.0 beta, AOL came back into our lives in a very strong way, this time threatening to sue Sean.
This represents a clear pattern. AOL received more pushback than they expected, and would sort of let things stand for a while. Then they would threaten a different Gaim developer. Each time a new Gaim developer was threatened, we had to look at new legal support, to prevent a conflict of interest."

I asked a friend what pidgin is, and he responded " pidgin english, language on pacific islands,
    and in murker." I agree with kenif's assessment that AOL's behavior makes them look like "wankers."