Interesting .....

[Lonni J Friedman]

On 7/24/07, C M Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 July 2007 09:03, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On 7/24/07, Ben Duncan <linux4ms at aim.com> wrote:
> > > Was reviewing some printing issues, when I came across a little tidbit of
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Seems APPLE bought out the CUPS (Yup, the printing software vendor) back
> > > in February.
> > >
> > > How interesting ...
> >
> > In what way?  Apple has been using & shipping CUPS for years.
>
> As in, they bought it from Easy Software Products:
>
> "In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and
> hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS. CUPS will still be released
> under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop
> and support CUPS at Apple."
>
> http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L475

Right, but I still don't see what makes that interesting.


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