Pidgin – multi-protocol Instant Messenger

What is Pidgin?

Pidgin is a multi-protocol Instant Messaging client that allows you to use all of your IM accounts at once.

Pidgin can work with:

* AIM
* Bonjour
* Gadu-Gadu
* Google Talk
* Groupwise
* ICQ

* IRC
* MSN
* MySpaceIM
* QQ
* SILC

* SIMPLE
* Sametime
* XMPP
* Yahoo!
* Zephyr

Pidgin is free software. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. This means you are free to use it and to modify it, but if you distribute your modifications you must distribute the modified source code as well.

That was as quoted on the http://www.pidgin.im/

And i must agree, its really handy. Instead of using a bundle of memory hogging Messenger Clients Pidgin is a viable option. After all its in human nature to make things easier and more manageable…

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