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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-02-01 19:11, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 2/1/26 9:54 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>> 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > Did you snip the rest of what I wrote because you can't address it,   
   > Usenet troll paid by Apple to annoy us everyday?   
   >   
      
   Answer my questions.   
      
   Your other stuff was a pivot...   
      
   ...as you always do.   
      
   1. "Do you suppose that in the 18+ years since Apple purchased the   
   source code that there's been no development?"   
      
   You didn't answer: you pivoted.   
      
   2. "Did I give credit to Apple for initially coding CUPS?"   
      
   You didn't answer.   
      
   3. "Or is that just something you imagined in your fanaticism?"   
      
   You didn't answer.   
      
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