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With Push for OS X Focus, CUPS Printing May Suffer On Other Platforms

Posted by timothy on from the long-predicted-effect dept.

CUPS is the popular open-source printing system that many projects have used successfully as a core, for desktop printing and as the basis of dedicated print servers. Reader donadony writes with word that Apple "has chosen to abandon certain Linux exclusive features, [while] continuing with popular Mac OS X features. The changeover is being attempted by Apple to set new printing standards that will not require 'drivers' in the future." However, as this message from Tim Waugh at Red Hat points out, all is not lost: "Where they are of use for the Linux environment, those orphaned features will continue to be maintained at OpenPrinting as a separate project."

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  1. Re:OK, whatever. by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oh rage! It's like seeing kiddies scream and ball because their parents won't buy them sweeties.

  2. Re:OK, whatever. by BasilBrush · · Score: -1, Troll

    For whom? You because you enjoy the misfortune of others?

    Schadenfreude is great when the misfortune is happening to complete twats.

    So, you think their abuse of the patent system is legit and all the negative comments are just "bitching"?

    This has nothing to do with patents. Apple own CUPS and can do what they like wit it. That's valid copyright, not patents.

    In other news, Apple is using patents in exactly the way they are intended to be used. They come up with an innovation for their products, they patent it to restrict others copying their innovation. Of course the minority on slashdot who are cretins try to claim (and maybe even believe) that Apple has patented the black rounded rectangle, and other such bollocks. Again, the increasing rage of such cretins is quite entertaining.