On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 23:42:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 30 September 2016 19:25:52 Brian wrote: > > Maintaining that CUPS is an official acronym for "Common Unix Printing > > System" has, so far, not been substantiated. > > Brian, do drop it. No-one, but no-one, has claimed it is the *official*name. > > It can't be because of the trademark problem. There is often a large gap > between something's name and its official name.
You mean we have spent all this time arguing about nothing when we could have been doing something useful? Dropped. > No-one who has actually seen the bottle could doubt that HP stands for Houses > of Parliament. I have only just checked that, but what else could it be with > that picture? And it was NEVER called Houses of Parliament, but always HP. "Please pass the Houses of Parliament sauce" *is* a bit of a mouthful. Thank goodness for acronyms. -- Brian.