Fire is a multi-protocol internet Instant Messaging client based on
freely available libraries for each service. It is released under the GNU GPL.
All services are built off of GPL’d libraries, including firetalk,
libicq2000, libmsn, jabber, and libyahoo2 (Linux libraries). Fire can handle similtaneous connections to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, IRC, MSN and Jabber. Fire is not affiliated with AOL-Time Warner, Microsoft or Yahoo. Back in the early beta days of Mac OS X, Eric Peyton wanted to have an IM client
which would run on this new OS from Apple. Of course, all of the official client vendors
had not done anything to support OS X, so Eric
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 OS X and a new
IM client began to take shape.
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