On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 14:40:44 (+0100), Brian wrote: > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 22:02:05 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 01:31:03PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 20:54:32 +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 10:31:45PM +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > > > On Thursday 29 September 2016 16:03:38 Mark Fletcher wrote: > > > > > > which I find ironic > > > > > > considering what the U of CUPS stands for > > > > > > > > > > Why? MacOSX is Unix based (via BSD) and CUPS is supposed to be > > > > > common to all > > > > > Unices (though I have only used it on Linux and MacOSX). > > > > > > > > > Precisely, Lisi. Precisely. > > > > > > The "U" in CUPS officially doesn't stand for anything. The same applies > > > to the "C", "P" and "S". > > > > > According to whom, Brian? (Apart from you, obviously :) ). According to > > the Internet (so it _must_ be true) it stands for Common Unix Printing > > System. Are they, and the Gutenprint driver which prints that on its > > test pages, just making sh*t up then? (To be fair I don't know which > > component creates the test page, but I do know, because I am sitting > > here with one about an inch away from my left hand, that when you ask > > CUPS to print a test page, it prints that on the test page.) > > I take it you are talking about the Debian PrinterTestPage (the logo is > at the left hand side). Nowhere on that page does it say "Common Unix > Printing System". Even if it did say that this is a Debian document, not an > official upstream CUPS document. It wouldn't count. > > The Internet might want CUPS to mean "Common Unix Printing System"; it > could organise a day of protest demanding CUPS to mean "Common Unix > Printing System"; it could sell tee shirts saying "CUPS - the Common > Unix Printing System". That doesn't count either. > > Find any significant occurance of "Common Unix Printing System" in the > official CUPS documentation or in its source code and there would be a > case to answer. There isn't, so there isn't. :) > > The official name of the software is CUPS.
http://www.apple.com/server/docs/Print_Services_TB_v10.4.pdf "At the heart of Mac OS X Server print services is a comprehensive, standards-compliant open source printing architecture based on Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS)." https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Printing/osxp_aboutprinting/osxp_aboutprt.html "The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) layer provides the low-level services, print queue management, and driver interfaces needed to communicate with printing devices." cups-2.2.1/locale/cups_ca.po (source) "# # "$Id$" # # Message catalog template for the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS). # # Copyright 2007-2015 by Apple Inc. # Copyright 2005-2007 by Easy Software Products. # # These coded instructions, statements, and computer programs are the # property of Apple Inc. and are protected by Federal copyright # law. Distribution and use rights are outlined in the file "LICENSE.txt" # which should have been included with this file. If this file is # file is missing or damaged, see the license at "http://www.cups.org/";. " A couple of logos in cups-2.2.1/test/testfile.{pdf,ps} . The redition in the latter is protected by Apple's copyright. I suppose we now have to discuss the meaning of significant occurance [sic]. Cheers, David.
