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Also to note some other "relationships" ...
Proteus uses many of the same underlying libraries but is violating the
GPL by not releasing the source to code to either those libraries or the
application itself.
Fire releases all of it's source code as specified by the GPL.
Proteus may one day attempt to charge users for it's application.
Fire will never attempt to do such a thing.
Proteus has no open source contributions.
Fire is mostly open source contributions at this time.
Eric
On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 07:32 AM, Matthew Stuckwisch wrote:
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>> client, but isn't very stable and has a lot of problems to iron out.
>> Could you explain Proteus' relationship to Fire though, cus I get this
>> feeling they're connected.
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> They are both multi-protocol instant messengers, and connect using
> basically the same libraries, except that Proteus doesn't handle IRC.
> Recently though I felt that there's an extra relationship as when
> certain connection-based bugs get stomped out in CVS for Fire, guess
> what program comes out with a bug-fixing update the next day?
> Basically, the two programs exist for people who feel there are better
> ways of doing the interface. Update-wise, Fire attempts to release
> with as few bugs as possible (and as a result end up releasing
> not-so-rapidly, but obtain a lot of new features in the process).
> Proteus updates often, with fewer features per update, but fixes bugs
> for the public a bit faster (but again,
> Fire doesn't release as many bugs to the public ;) ). I hope that
> helps.
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