On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 10:46:16 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 03:37:55PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 16:20:03 +0200, Frank wrote: > > > It is. Check (most of) the entries in the blog at > > > https://www.cups.org/blog.html from 10 Jul 2000 to 15 Dec 2008. > > > > I thought it was obvious we were talking about now, not the past. ESP > > was sold to Apple in 2007. The change in naming would not have been > > carried out immediately. There appears to have been a year's delay, for > > whatever reason. > > We are talking about right now. The name CUPS is clearly an acronym > that stands for Common Unix Printing System (or "UNIX" if you prefer). > Everyone who uses CUPS knows this. It's the dirty little secret that > Apple can no longer admit, because lawyers.
This argument makes Xfce and KDE to be clearly acronyms in spite of the expressed wishes of the Xfce and KDE Foundations > You are doublethinking. In your world, CUPS isn't an acronym, and you > have always been at war with Eastasia. CUPS isn't an acronym in any world which has respect for legality when it matters. -- Brian.
