LinuxReviews.org interview with the developer team BitlBee: Wilmer van der Gaast, Maurits Dijkstra and Jelmer Vernooij and a Word from the old Sjoerd Hemminga developer. Discover what new cool features will be available in version 1.0, which includes have been implemented so far and what visions these brilliant young men have for the future of BitlBee and the Open Source community.
What is BitlBee, and what makes it so cool? What steps has the BitlBee recently overcome, including the star in the new version you are more satisfied? BitlBee was originally written for Linux. How much work was involved in porting of Windows, and why did you choose to do so? Can what major new features we expect in the next version of BitlBee? What awaits us? A survey on the bitlbee.org showed 58.1% of your transfer of files users doas was their most desired functionality. When BitlBee will support the transfer of files? What other projects are open source you involved in? What are your future visions for BitlBee? What are your visions of the future for the Open Source community? Why is what made you leave BitlBee? More information on BitlBee
1. What is BitlBee, and what makes it so cool? Wilmer: BitlBee allows to talk to people on Jabber, ICQ, MSN and some other IM networks using your favorite IRC client. Several programs such as BitlBee already exist, but most of them either are supported only a single network IM or IRC client. Why is this cool? For me it's cool because I like the way of works my (irssi) IRC client, and because it allows me to keep all my tricks of communication (e-mail, IRC, IM), running in a session of the screen and attach to it from anywhere. But BitlBee seems to be popular in other groups. For example, many fans of Emacs uses Bitlbee
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