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Apple Licenses CUPS
bmeteor writes: "Short and very sweet: CUPS is licensed by Apple. A boon for both Apple and GNU." CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) is a system based on the Internet Printing Protocol for standardized printing on Unix systems. That's nice, but when can I print over the network to my Epson inkjet, like I can in Mac OS 9 with USB Printer Sharing?
That's a myth. They repackage commodity hardware into pretty boxes (ATA drives, ATI/nVidia video, PCI bus, USB, la la la), bundle it with a closed, non-standard operating system, price it at 175% of commodity prices, and do brilliant marketing to convince people like you that they're buying "quality." You haven't bought quality, my friend, you've bought an image. And, like the guy in the Sprite commercial said, "Image is nothing."
Hmmm...your cake called from the bus station. Said something about you trying to eat it when you already had it.