[nylug-talk] Read it and weep.

[Brian Gupta]

On 7/30/07, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
>
> 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.


First, it's not just printer drivers. Second, Apple has a very poor record
of playing nice in the Open Source community. Take a look at
Konquerer/Safari and Darwin.  http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200602/apple.html

Because of how they handled khtml, Safari code and khtml code are completely
incompatible, and can't be merged.

They now have full rights to incorporate external contributions into their
closed source fork. They also have complete freedom to close source anything
related to CUPS, not just drivers. (~"But not limited to drivers")