Yeah, Idont think its the end of the world, and it might even have good result. I was just saying its not a "great" thing..... There is a reason apple bought CUPS before it went GPLv3. Makes you wonder what would have happened if Apple had to make a choice if CUPS had gone GPLv3 first.
On 7/12/07, Joel Brauer <[email protected]> wrote:
I am not concerned at all. This is the beauty of GPL. If apple tries to screw it up, which I doubt they will, since they've been using it for years in OSX, someone else can just create their own derivative project and move on from there. -joel On 7/12/07, Brian Friday <[email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Nah its not any more a bad thing then when google and other people > hired the main developers for any other platform. Apple has been > using cups for Mac OS X printing for a long time now. > > They will still be releasing under the gpl, obviously apple might > have specific things that they will not release just as they don't > always release the changes made to safari back to its originator.... > > Also think of it this way... if cups _was_ for sale, imagine if > microsoft bought it? > > On Jul 12, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Chris Louden wrote: > > > On 7/12/07, Chris Penn <[email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]>> > wrote: > >> Thats probably not a great thing........ > >> > > > > I'm torn, Google has hired several OSS people and pays them to > > continue what they are already doing. Apple is working with Google... > > Birds of a feather. On the other hand CUPS is pretty important to > > Linux. Apple could see Linux as a threat. This could be a way of > > handicapping Linux. I just don't see this as being as shady as the > > Novell/MS situation. Printing on a MAC is pretty decent already, not > > sure what they might be up too. Why did it take so long to announce > > it? > > > >> On 7/12/07, Chris Louden <[email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]>> > wrote: > >>> Whoa! > >>> > >>> http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L475 > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> 909linux mailing list > >>> [email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]> > >>> http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > >>> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we > >> seem to be > >> continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > >> -Roger Penrose > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 909linux mailing list > >> [email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]> > >> http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 909linux mailing list > > [email protected] > <https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]> > > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]> > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux > -- Joel Brauer Only you can decide to be happy! The rest of life is in the details... _______________________________________________ 909linux mailing list [email protected]<https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&[email protected]> http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux
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