<s>
Fire	O
is	O
a	O
discontinued	O
instant	B-Application
messaging	I-Application
client	B-Protocol
for	O
macOS	B-Application
that	O
can	O
access	O
IRC	B-Protocol
,	O
XMPP	B-Protocol
,	O
AIM	B-Protocol
,	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
,	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
Yahoo	O
!,	O
and	O
Bonjour	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
All	O
services	O
are	O
built	O
on	O
GPL	B-License
’d	I-License
libraries	O
,	O
including	O
,	O
libfaim	O
,	O
libmsn	O
,	O
XMPP	B-Protocol
,	O
and	O
libyahoo2	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
program	O
is	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
GNU	B-License
General	I-License
Public	I-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
of	O
Fire	O
's	O
developers	O
joined	O
the	O
Adium	B-Protocol
team	O
and	O
wrote	O
a	O
transition	O
path	O
for	O
users	O
to	O
move	O
from	O
Fire	O
to	O
Adium	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
announcement	O
recommended	O
Adium	B-Protocol
for	O
future	O
IM	O
needs	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
early	O
beta	B-Operating_System
of	O
Mac	B-Application
OS	I-Application
X	I-Application
,	O
Eric	O
Peyton	O
wanted	O
to	O
have	O
an	O
IM	O
client	B-Protocol
which	O
would	O
run	O
on	O
this	O
new	O
OS	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
all	O
of	O
the	O
official	O
client	B-Protocol
vendors	O
had	O
not	O
yet	O
supported	O
Mac	B-Application
OS	I-Application
X	I-Application
,	O
so	O
Peyton	O
started	O
expanding	O
on	O
an	O
OPENSTEP	O
project	O
he	O
had	O
been	O
working	O
on	O
,	O
which	O
used	O
an	O
open	O
source	O
library	O
to	O
connect	O
with	O
AIM	B-Protocol
servers	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
started	O
porting	O
this	O
using	O
the	O
new	O
Cocoa	B-Operating_System
libraries	O
on	O
Mac	B-Application
OS	I-Application
X	I-Application
and	O
a	O
new	O
IM	O
client	B-Protocol
began	O
to	O
take	O
shape	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Early	O
development	O
was	O
fast	O
and	O
Fire	O
was	O
touted	O
by	O
Apple	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
keystone	O
applications	O
on	O
Mac	B-Operating_System
OS	I-Operating_System
X	I-Operating_System
v10.0	I-Operating_System
.	O
</s>
<s>
First	O
Yahoo	B-Application
!	I-Application
</s>
<s>
and	O
ICQ	B-Protocol
were	O
added	O
,	O
followed	O
later	O
by	O
IRC	B-Protocol
,	O
Microsoft	O
,	O
and	O
XMPP	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
recently	O
,	O
support	O
for	O
Bonjour	B-Application
was	O
added	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
They	O
collaborated	O
for	O
a	O
while	O
still	O
using	O
the	O
Epicware	O
hardware	O
and	O
finally	O
decided	O
to	O
move	O
the	O
project	O
to	O
SourceForge	B-Application
to	O
take	O
advantage	O
of	O
the	O
free	O
hosting	O
,	O
download	O
,	O
and	O
mirror	O
services	O
available	O
there	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
0.28.a	O
was	O
the	O
first	O
release	O
which	O
used	O
the	O
SourceForge	B-Application
System	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
23	O
February	O
2007	O
,	O
development	O
of	O
Fire	O
officially	O
ended	O
as	O
the	O
Fire	O
developers	O
merged	O
with	O
he	O
Adium	B-Protocol
development	O
team	O
to	O
focus	O
on	O
a	O
single	O
IM	O
application	O
supporting	O
Mac	B-Application
OS	I-Application
X	I-Application
.	O
</s>
