Apple acquires CUPS source

[Matt Johnston]

On 14 Jul 2007, at 23:41, Michael Brian Bentley wrote:

> The CUPS transaction may over time turn into the poster child for  
> what is supposed to happen on behalf of GPL developers. Had the  
> CUPS package been BSD, Apple probably might have felt that they  
> didn't have to buy it.

True. But they still hired the guy the way they hired other FLOSS  
guys who were important to THE CAUSE.

> CUPS doesn't seem to do very much, most of it seems to be spent in  
> support for the myriad printers. It probably wouldn't take much  
> work to write something from scratch and give it a GPLv3 license,  
> if Apple and the author decide not to go that way. A team of late  
> teens or early twenty-somethings could make short work of it.

I'm slightly incredulous....but sure..........