3:59 PM - Apple owns CUPS
http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/12/1342258&from=rss
Apple purchased CUPS, the standard in UNIX/Linux printing technologies. They switched to it years ago. (10.2 i think) There are many theories why they bought CUPS including preventing a license change to GPLv3. The catch is that I believe SAMBA has already gone GPLv3 so Apple will still have to include GPLv3 code in 10.5 anyway. Well I guess they could stop supporting windows networking, but that would kill their business and education sales.
They could close source CUPS which would be terrible for open source projects.
Apple purchased CUPS, the standard in UNIX/Linux printing technologies. They switched to it years ago. (10.2 i think) There are many theories why they bought CUPS including preventing a license change to GPLv3. The catch is that I believe SAMBA has already gone GPLv3 so Apple will still have to include GPLv3 code in 10.5 anyway. Well I guess they could stop supporting windows networking, but that would kill their business and education sales.
They could close source CUPS which would be terrible for open source projects.
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