[nylug-talk] Read it and weep.

[Henning Follmann]

Brian Gupta wrote:
> http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L179+I0+T+M10+P1+Q
> 
> Apple forked CUPS, and has managed to close source it in the process.
> 



Well they did NOT close source cups. They injected the posibility to
have closed source drivers.
This brings us again to the very emotional conducted discussion "are
closed sourced drivers evil?".
But fact is that some manufacturers just don't want to release any
specifications around their crappy products (because then you actually
would see how crappy they are). But apple still wants to offer support
for their products and I think they cannot afford to not do so.

CUPS is still GPL and that does not change. That's the bottom line.

-- 
Henning