![]() It was named GAIM ( GTK+ AOL Instant Messenger) accordingly. The earliest archived release was on December 31, 1998. The program was originally written by Mark Spencer, an Auburn University sophomore, as an emulation of AOL's IM program AOL Instant Messenger on Linux using the GTK+ toolkit. Gaim 2.0.0 beta 6 running under GNOME 2.16.0 Chelsea Manning used it when leaking documents that would later be hosted by Wikileaks. For this reason it is included in the privacy- and anonymity-focused operating system Tails. ![]() ![]() Pidgin is widely used for its Off-the-Record Messaging (OTR) plugin, which offers end-to-end encryption. The number of Pidgin users was estimated to be over three million in 2007. Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a free and open-source multi-platform instant messaging client, based on a library named libpurple that has support for many instant messaging protocols, allowing the user to simultaneously log into various services from one application. 2.10.12 (January 2, 2016 6 years ago ( )) Ĭ ( C#, Perl, Python, Tcl are used for plugins)
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