On Saturday 01 October 2016 04:32:31 Brian wrote: > On Sat 01 Oct 2016 at 00:39:35 -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 22:48:38 (+0100), Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 17:00:02 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 03:49:23PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > > "CUPS is the standards-based, open source printing system > > > > > developed by Apple Inc. for macOS® and other UNIX®-like > > > > > operating systems." > > > > > > > > > > which is stretching the truth IMHO, given the normal meaning > > > > > of "for", "and", and "other", written in that order. Calling > > > > > it "Common UNIX Printing System" would blow that out of the > > > > > water. > > > > > > > > Their use of "developed by" is rather jaw-dropping as well. > > > > Perhaps they mean it in the sense of "maintained by", but I > > > > think most people > > > > > > No, they mean "developed by...". > > > > > > > would read it as "created by" which is blatantly untrue. > > > > > > Most people have an understanding of language (which you appear to > > > lack) and would read it as "developed by...". > > > > I think that was rude and uncalled for. > > And crediting someone with indulging in doublespeak, being a lawyer > and deserving pity isn't? > > > The clever thing about the web page is the careful omission of a > > comma after system, so that the sentence gets read as > > > > C is the S that is developed by A > > > > rather than > > > > C is the S, which was developed by A. > > > > My observation is that most computer software websites credit the > > original authors/creators/developers in a place easily found by > > casual visitors. I haven't found any mention of Sweet outside the > > blog, and only a mere two occurrences there. > > CUPS 2.2.0 was released on 13 Sep 2016. It was developed by Apple. > CUPS 2.2.x will be developed by Apple and released soonish. CUPS > 1.6.x, CUPS 1.7.x and CUPS 2.0.x were developed by Apple. Apple is the > only entity developing CUPS. "C is the S that is developed by A" looks > an accurate reflection of the state of affairs.
The last msg I have from the c...@cups.org mailing list is in may of 2016, and is signed by: Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer Its possible I am not getting that list since moving my mail server usage to shentel.net, I had to call their support and have ALL my mailing list subscriptions whitelisted, and I may have failed to specify c...@cups.org as a good address to allow through. Humm, its acting like a new subscription request. So we'll see if it works. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
