I didn't realize that Apple bought CUPS

[incognegro]

http://www.cups.org/

Did a test print from my Brother printer and saw CUPS © Apple.

"CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. It was developed by Easy Software Products and is now owned and maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. It is the standard printing system in Mac OS® X and most Linux® distributions.

CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing."

[mattkime]

its odd that they bought it - i'm not sur what that exactly means. however, the software is free, source code and all.

[Fred_Also]

Try this address in your browser to get the CUPS info on your connected printers.

http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/


Fred Also

[JoeH]

There is a FAQ on the site, http://www.cups.org/articles.php?L476+TFAQ+P1+Q, that covers the "Who Owns CUPS?" question. Part of it is that in Feb. 2007 Apple hired the original writer of CUPS to work for them. He was also an owner of the company Apple bought the rights to CUPS from. This probably allows Apple to keep him in control of official distributions of the code, and might have been part of the negotiated contract when he went to work for them. Would not be the first GPL'd code that has a corporate owner.

[ztirffritz]

I think that apple purchased CUPS so that they could ensure it's future. Imagine what would have happened if MS purchased it? Every Linux and unix district would have been screwed. Techically they could have forked the project but that would have taken precious time and apple was on a role.

[incognegro]

I was thinking that too, Fritz.

[Black Landlord]

The innovation and marketing savvy should have been a dead giveaway.
http://www.nuttybuddy.com/sitemap.html

[Harbourmaster]

[quote Fred_Also]Try this address in your browser to get the CUPS info on your connected printers.

http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/


Fred Also
Wow! That's sweet Fred! Thanks!!!

[WHiiP]

Thanks, Fred . . .

The printer test page is nice, but it doesn't give you the page count that I would like to see (like the start-up page from my LW12/640PS).

Another interesting thing is that it shows my Canon i850 as having Postscript Level 3. Hmmmm...

[incognegro]

check out this printer:

Description: 127.0.0.1
Location:
Printer Driver: Generic PostScript Printer
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, not published.
Device URI: lpd://127.0.0.1/