On 07/28/2011 06:32 AM, Brent L. Bates wrote:
One point of clarification. CUPS was NOT developed by Apple, they bought
it. I used to talk to the guy who actually created it many YEARS ago as free
software. He then commercialized it some, then eventually sold it off. I
guess Apple owns the rights to it now.
My understanding is that you are correct, and that CUPS evolved from
earlier lp driver databases -- implementationally and somewhat
conceptually different from predecessors, but following a path that had
been forged.
As a further aside, I for one do not care who is funding an open systems
source-available project -- CUPS nominally is a .org , not a .com or
.biz . It is obvious from the responses that Fermilab does not have the
dedicated staffing to provide such a capability for hard drive parameter
data -- does CERN? Does any other more-or-less public entity anywhere
in the world? Would a for-profit entity step up to the plate, as Apple
did with CUPS or Sun (now Oracle) did with OpenOffice (Sun bought
StarOffice that became OpenOffice)?
Yasha Karant
