Apple acquires CUPS source

Matt Johnston pelorus at mac.com
Thu Jul 12 11:20:13 PDT 2007


On 12 Jul 2007, at 18:52, Charlton Wilbur wrote:

>
> On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Matt Johnston wrote:
>
>> I think they're much better off sticking it to the Linux politicos  
>> who will now want to fork a GNU Printing Subsystem so they can rid  
>> themselves of the taint of Apple code...
>
> Oh, if they're going to stick it to Linux and GPL nutters, the BSD  
> license is totally the way to go.  Making them fork and reinvent  
> the thing purely for ideological reasons....

Nahhh, they consider BSD to be Free and aren't above incorporating  
BSD into their own software.

APSL is the way to go.

All of a sudden, Linux can't print....[1]

M

[1] Yes, I know. But it makes me laugh which is the aim here....



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