Mulberry Creators File for Bankruptcy

kRemit writes "Isamet/Cyrusoft International, the producer of the much-beloved email app Mulberry, has announced on its website that it has filed for liquidation under Title 11, Chapter 7. On a sidenote, Mulberry-mastermind Cyrus Daboo doesn't think it will be possible to release the source, because of third party implications and the overall complexity of the program. Also, there's already plenty of open source mail apps around. Goodbye, it was great while it lasted."

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[slavemowgli]

Actually... contrary to what you might believe, GCC *is* a good optimising compiler. Sure, it doesn't pull all the tricks that ICC does, for example, but then, it has dozens of different frontends (i.e., support for different programming languages) and backends (i.e., support for different architectures), which is something that definitely cannot be said about ICC.

Furthermore, while ICC *is* better at optimising for Intel (!) chips, that shouldn't really be a surprise, considering that it's written by the *manufacturer* of said chips. Compare GCC with other commercial compilers, though (like Visual C++) and you might be pleasantly surprised (or unpleasantly, if you're M$).