Apple acquires CUPS source

[Michael Brian Bentley]

>Yeah just like how Apple didn't hire several folks from the BSD 
>world years ago ... they just took the source an ran and decided 
>that the good folks that worked on it didn't matter. Oh wait I 
>forgot they actually did hire folks.
>
>=P
>
>-Shawn

It would help to know much apple paid for CUPS, and what deals those 
other folks were able to arrange. Were they able to negotiate from a 
strong position? I don't know. I'm going to bet they at least all got 
good salaries.

The buyer sometimes requires the key people from the small company to 
stick around for a couple years while the buyer learns from and 
adopts to the system. The salary that these key employees make during 
that time is probably significant, but salary income usually isn't in 
the same order of magnitude as the income that comes from selling the 
company. (It might get there if someone stuck around for ten or 
twenty years.)