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Author: o1bigtenor
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To: Olaf Meeuwissen
CC: Didier Kryn, dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] CUPS history (was Re: Connect Mac laptop to linux printer)
On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 7:19 PM Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng
<dng@???> wrote:
>
> Hi Didier,
>
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> writes:
>
> > Le 08/04/2023 à 00:05, capercally.bleery670@??? a écrit :
> >> [...]
> >
> >     May be you don't know, but CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) was
> > first developped by Apple.

>
> Uh, no. It was created in 1999 by Michael Sweet (Easy Software
> Products) and bought buy Apple in 2007 (after they adopted it as the
> print system for MacOS in 2002).
>
> [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
>


What I find quite interesting is that in 2020 cups was forked.
(I read the wiki article - - - grin!)
Checked and my system here is running the new non-corporate
version - - - yeehaw!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards