Development of Fire ends

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The developers of Fire have announced on their web site that development is to cease. Fire is/was a multi-protocol instant messaging application for OS X, and could be used with AIM, ICQ, irc, Jabber (including Google Talk and Apple iChat Server), MSN, Yahoo! Messenger, and Apple Bonjour. The message on the front of the web page reads:

We are saddened to announce that there will be no future versions of Fire. There are several reasons for this end, but the most notable is the loss of developers. Fire's development had dwindled to few developers who do not wish to continue the project alone. In addition, another major contributing factor is the fact that all but one of Fire's IM libraries is no longer in active development.

The good news is that two of Fire's developers have joined the Adium team and have written a transition path. Adium 1.0, upon first launch, will import your Fire accounts, away messages, groups, buddies, and logs into Adium. For future updates and IM needs, we suggest that you look at Adium.