On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:18 AM, <moil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are you saying Apple invented CUPS?
Somehow...
from terminal, run
~ man cupsd
and scroll down to the end of the page.
You will see the following:
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2007-2011 by Apple Inc.
Wikipedia has more information about it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUPS
Michael Sweet, who owned Easy Software Products, started developing
CUPS in 1997. The first public betas appeared in 1999. The original
design of CUPS used the LPD protocol, but due to limitations in LPD
and vendor incompatibilities, the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) was
chosen instead. CUPS was quickly adopted as the default printing
system for several Linux distributions, including Red Hat Linux. In
March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS
X 10.2. In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael
Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.
Best,
--
Stefano
