[nylug-talk] Read it and weep.

[Chris Knadle]

On Monday 30 July 2007, Brian Gupta wrote:
> Oh yeah, and no one seemed to notice.. (It seems they just might have
> gotten away with it...) This is a huge blow to the open source movement,
> this needs wider coverage...

   It was noticed -- came up on Slashdot a couple of weeks ago.
     http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/12/1342258

> On 7/30/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> 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.

   So they're giving themselves an exception to make proprietary printer 
drivers [for OS X only] without releasing the code for them, even if they're 
based on sample or existing filters that are already in CUPS.  Hmm.

   -- Chris

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Chris Knadle
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