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Apple buys CUPS
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CUPSThe name “CUPS” may not sound familiar, but it’s part of every Mac OS X installation. CUPS stand for “The Common Unix Printing System”. It’s a modular printing system for Unix-like computer operating systems that allows a computer to act as a powerful print server.

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 after initial attempts at developing a printing subsystem from scratch were abandoned.

CUPS implements a cross-platform printing system based on the Internet Printing Protocol and is, according to its web page, the defacto standard printing system for Linux.

Although the purchase was announced yesterday on CUPS’ website, it seems the actual deal went down this past February. In addition to acquiring the CUPS source code ownership, Apple Inc. has also hired Michael R. Sweet, its creator.

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1 Comment posted on "Apple buys CUPS"
Mark07 on July 19th, 2007 at 8:21 am #

Well, how can Apple Inc be behind in todays race of acquisition by all the major brands.Now the race of acquiring smaller but popular or important companies has begun and nobody knows when is this going to end.


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