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Patent Applications Hint Apple Wants To Eliminate Printer Drivers

Posted by timothy on from the from-anywhere-is-a-nice-ideal dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple has filed two patent applications that describe an approach as well as file formats and APIs to eliminate the printer driver as a requirement for users to access a printer and print documents. If the company has its way, there will be three ways to access a printer in the future: The first will be via a conventional software driver. The second will be via a cloud service and the third will be via a driverless access method that supports 'universal' printing from any type device."

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  1. Re:postscript by Goaway · · Score: 0, Troll

    They bought CUPS fair and square, so they own the copyright, and they could close it if they wanted. They didn't want to.

    And there certainly was never any "long fight" about giving any changes back for WebKit. Source was released, as required, as soon as it shipped. What KDE complained about was that they wanted more than the license required, which is feature-specific diffs. This is not trivial to provide, after re-writing so much of the original source. Apple was in no way required to provide this, but they did anyway.