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Couls you embed it in the background as a few mail calanders I have seen?
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On 2/6/02 11:26 AM, "Eric Peyton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Also to note some other "relationships" ...
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> 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.
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> Fire releases all of it's source code as specified by the GPL.
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> Proteus may one day attempt to charge users for it's application.
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> Fire will never attempt to do such a thing.
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> Proteus has no open source contributions.
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> Fire is mostly open source contributions at this time.
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> Eric
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> 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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>> Matthew Stuckwisch
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