Apple has officially purchased CUPS!

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dstranathandstranathan
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Apple has officially purchased CUPS, a modularized computer printing system for Unix-like operating systems that allows computers to act as print servers. Apple has acquired ownership of the C Unix Printing System open-source project source code, and has hired project creator Michael R Sweet. "In February of 2007, Apple Inc. acquired ownership the CUPS source code and hired me (Michael R Sweet), the creator of CUPS," Sweet wrote on the CUPS project site. "CUPS will still be released under the existing GPL2/LGPL2 licensing terms, and I will continue to develop and support CUPS at Apple." Apple has gained all rights to the CUPS trademarks including Common UNIX Printing System, CUPS, and the CUPS logo.

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    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member
    Sounds good for Sweet and for Apple. Maybe they can continue to hire off the best UNIX programmers and bring them into the Apple fold.
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