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Fire is an instant messagingclient for Mac OS X (previously for OPENSTEP), that can access IRC, XMPP, AIM, ICQ, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Bonjour. All services are built on GPL’d libraries, including firetalk, libfaim, libicq2000, libmsn, XMPP, and libyahoo2. Fire supports OS X v10.1 and higher.

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The latest version of Fire is 1.5.6. The program is released under the GNU General Public License.

On 2007-02-23, it was announced that there would be no future versions of Fire released. The official Fire website stated there were several reasons, the biggest being the loss of developers, followed by the fact that most of the libraries used by Fire are no longer in active development. Two of Fire's developers joined the Adium team and wrote a transition path for users to move from Fire to Adium. The announcement recommended Adium for future IM needs.^[1]

While Apple's previous iPod media players used a minimal operating system, the iPhone used an operating system based on Mac OS X, which would later be called 'iPhone OS' and then iOS. The simultaneous release of two operating systems based on the same frameworks placed tension on Apple, which cited the iPhone as forcing it to delay Mac OS X 10. Fire.app is freeware and can be downloaded (a 1.0 M file) from the EpicWare Web site (Fast Internet Response Exchange/Engine). However, note that it's for the final version of Mac OS X.

History[edit]

In the early beta days of Mac OS X, Eric Peyton wanted to have an IM client which would run on this new OS. However, all of the official client vendors had not yet supported Mac OS X, so Peyton started expanding on an OPENSTEP project he had been working on, which used an open source library to connect with AIM servers. He started porting this using the new Cocoa libraries on Mac OS X and a new IM client began to take shape.

Development in the early days was fast and furious and Fire was touted by Apple as one of the keystone applications on Mac OS X v10.0. Initially Peyton hosted the application and did all the development on his own equipment. He then formed the corporation 'Epicware' to protect himself from the lawyers of the huge corporations he was interacting with.

The application was expanded to include the ability to talk to multiple servers. First Yahoo! and ICQ were added, followed later by IRC, Microsoft, and XMPP. Most recently, support for Bonjour was added.

Because service providers at this time used proprietary protocols to facilitate vendor lock in, Fire would often stop working with one or another major service until the application or one of its component libraries was updated.

In 2001, Colter Reed started contributing to the development of Fire on a regular basis and became the second major developer of Fire. They collaborated for a while using the Epicware hardware and finally decided to move the project to SourceForge to take advantage of the free hosting, download, and mirror services available there. Version 0.28.a was the first release which used the SourceForge System.

From 2003-2007, primary development of the Fire application was transferred to Graham Booker and Alan Humpherys with many others participating in development and localization of the product.

On 2007-02-23, development of Fire officially ended as the Fire developers joined forces with the Adium development team to focus on a single IM application supporting Mac OS X.

See also[edit]

• List of XMPP client software

References[edit]

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1. ^https://sourceforge.net/p/fire/mailman/message/10848647/

External links[edit]

• Official website

Looking for a Mac OS X instant messenger client for AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, IRC, MSN and Jabber? Then check out Fire.app (as in Fast Internet Response Exchange/Engine) from Epicware, which puts a single surface on theses services.

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Fire.app is a multiplatform instant messenger client based off of freely available libraries for each of these services. Presently, it can also tackle ICQ communication, and Yahoo! Pager communication. With the app, you can set up a buddy list to see who’s online, save a password and user name, and connect and disconnect from any service using a Services dialog.

Fire.app is freeware and can be downloaded (a 1.0 M file) from the EpicWare Web site (Fast Internet Response Exchange/Engine). However, note that it’s for the final version of Mac OS X. it won’t work on the Mac OS X Public Beta. Also note that it’s open source and under continual development.