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BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst interacting with popular chat networks such as AIM and ICQ (both via OSCAR), Windows Live, Yahoo! and Jabber. The users' buddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel and conversations use the private message facility of IRC. Irssi is an IRC client program originally written by Timo Sirainen, and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. ...
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For the old versions of this software called MSN Messenger, see MSN Messenger. ...
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// Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ...
In telecommunications, the term gateway has the following meanings: In a communications network, a network node equipped for interfacing with another network that uses different protocols. ...
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AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a free, advertisement-supported proprietary instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol. ...
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, owned by Time Warners AOL subsidiary. ...
OSCAR is AOLs instant messaging and presence information protocol standing for Open System for CommunicAtion in Realtime. ...
For the old versions of this software called MSN Messenger, see MSN Messenger. ...
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Official logo of the Jabber Software Foundation Jabber is a collection of open, real-time communication technologies built on the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). ...
Although it is possible to run BitlBee on your own computer, there are many servers available for public use. [1]
BitlBee runs on many operating systems including Linux, Unix, BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and AmigaOS. An operating system (OS) is the software that manages the sharing of the resources of a computer and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ...
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Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®, sometimes also written as or ® with small caps) is a computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...
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Mac OS X (pronounced ) is a line of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ...
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AmigaOS is the default native operating system of the Amiga personal computer. ...
History
The idea for BitlBee was forged at the 24th of June, in 2002 by Wilmer van der Gaast, it remains unknown when the first lines of code were written.
In early stages of development, BitlBee was more or less a semi-fork of Pidgin (known as Gaim at that time), only for IRC clients. As of lately, the application only still has a similar API to that of Pidgin. In software engineering, a project fork or branch happens when a developer (or a group of them) takes a copy of source code from one software package and starts to independently develop a new package. ...
Pidgin (formerly named Gaim) is a multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ...
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See also The following is a list of articles about instant messaging clients which utilize the Jabber / XMPP protocol. ...
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of instant messaging clients. ...
External links - BitlBee homepage
- A guide to using BitlBee
- AFKIM For The PlayStation Portable
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