diff NEWS @ 20400:ea9a5566a156

propagate from branch 'im.pidgin.rlaager.merging.msnp13-and-sf-1621854-4' (head 36b8a3e05397b5918f311a046fa580c5bb8846e0) to branch 'im.pidgin.cpw.khc.msnp14' (head 39ac2e1b7754245b292605b0e3055ebb1b954c5d)
author Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
date Sun, 15 Apr 2007 05:00:56 +0000
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--=[ Gaim ]=-  The Pimpin' Penguin IM Client That's Good For The Soul!
+Pidgin and Finch: The Pimpin' Penguin IM Clients That're Good for the Soul
+
+2.0.0:
+	Nathan:  So, the secret is out now.  We renamed to Pidgin.  I'd just
+	like to apologize to everyone we've had to keep in the dark for the
+	last however-many months.  I know it looked like development slowed
+	to a crawl, but in reality we've been working pretty hard to get 
+	2.0.0 out the door, without getting into any legal trouble.  I
+	realize that if we were some big corporation, we'd be getting flamed
+	about this secrecy for months.  Please try to remember that we're
+	just a bunch of geeks who were scared of legal stuff (well, at least
+	I was.  Scared, that is).  The bottom line is that we're out in the
+	open again, and fully plan to stay that way.  We're also opening up
+	the mail archives from the secretive past few months.  You can scan
+	though them if you want, or I can summarize.  "Are the lawyers done
+	yet?  No.  Now?  No.  How about now?  No."  All lawyer jokes aside,
+	I'm grateful to our legal team for crossing all the 't's and dotting
+	all the lowercase 'j's to get us the deal we got.  Anyways, thanks
+	for your patience, and on to 2.0.1!
 
 2.0.0beta6 (1/17/2006):
 	Sean: Barring any seriously major new issues, we expect this to be