XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-02-01 18:42, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 2/1/26 8:56 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-02-01 12:58, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>> On 2/1/26 2:39 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-02-01 04:14, vallor wrote:   
   >>>>> At Sun, 1 Feb 2026 04:39:43 -0000 (UTC), "Klink"    
   >>>>> wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Why would anyone punish themselves by using Linux?   
   >>>>>> If you insist on running some form on Unix then use a Mac like I do.   
   >>>>>> It's professionally done and has a consistent UI that actually works.   
   >>>>>> Screw Linux and leave it to people who enjoy fixing things that   
   >>>>>> should   
   >>>>>> work, like printing for example.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> You are a very funny lady. 😜   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> (The joke, of course, is that Linux printing uses CUPS -- same   
   >>>>> as MacOS.)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> CUPS--the Common Unix Printing System...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...is an Apple product.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> :-)   
   >>>   
   >>>  >>>   
   >>> Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing   
   >>> CUPS in 1997 and the first public betas appeared in 1999.[5][6] The   
   >>> original design of CUPS used the Line Printer Daemon protocol (LPD),   
   >>> but due to limitations in LPD and vendor incompatibilities, the   
   >>> Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was chosen instead. CUPS was   
   >>> initially called "The Common UNIX Printing System". This name was   
   >>> shortened to just "CUPS" beginning with CUPS 1.4 due to legal   
   >>> concerns with the UNIX trademark.[7] CUPS was quickly adopted as the   
   >>> default printing system for most Linux distributions. In March 2002,   
   >>> Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2.[8]   
   >>> In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and   
   >>> purchased the CUPS source code.[9] On December 20, 2019, Michael   
   >>> Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.[10][11] In 2020,   
   >>> the OpenPrinting organization forked the project, with Michael Sweet   
   >>> continuing work on it. Apple retained the builds for macOS, iOS, and   
   >>> iPadOS with latest release of Apple CUPS being version 2.3.6 on May   
   >>> 25, 2022.   
   >>> <<<   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Another Apple buyout Alan's giving them credit for being their   
   >>> "product", wow.   
   >>   
   >> Yes.   
   >>   
   >> Apple bought it from Michael Sweet...   
   >>   
   >> ...in 2007.   
   >>   
   >> It's now 2026.   
   >>   
   >> Do you suppose that in the 18+ years since Apple purchased the source   
   >> code that there's been no development?   
   >   
   >   
   > Microsoft did work on DOS, too, would you give Gates credit for coding   
   > it initially?   
      
   Did I give credit to Apple for initially coding CUPS?   
      
   Or is that just something you imagined in your fanaticism?   
      
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