Linux needs to steal software from apple in order to print documents

Apple hired the guy who developed CUPS and bought it from him.

So, Apple DEVELOPS CUPS, but they did not originally develop CUPS.

No.
CUPS was developed at Apple.
also
>Buying FOSS
Where do I buy the drugs you're on?

>Apple needs to steal software from KDE in order to display websites
OH NO NO NO

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You can acquire ownership of a free software project to re-license it how you wish

>cups gets developed by Michael Sweet of Easy Software Products in 1997
>apple buys it in 2007 and hires Michael Sweet and buys the rights to the source (which was already under the GPL, something Apple couldn't change)
>"apple invested CUPS"
like they invested tablets 10 years after microsoft's tablet, eh?

Apple did invent the air
you cannot deny that

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apple 'appropriated' the entire BSD codebase

Reminder that linux is a kernel.

but they did invest in CUPS

>steal
>a GPL program
ok

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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This is the sate of /v/'s tech support.
saged.

No, bonehead.

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bump

DELETE

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is this the autismo equivalent of rap beefs?

They did. They took the network stack and most of userland and utilities from BSD tho.

Even apple b8 is shit these days.

LP(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual LP(1P)

PROLOG
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual
page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME
lp — send files to a printer

SYNOPSIS
lp [−c] [−d dest] [−n copies] [−msw] [−o option]... [−t title] [file...]

DESCRIPTION
The lp utility shall copy the input files to an output destination in an unspecified manner. The default output destination should be to a hardcopy device,
such as a printer or microfilm recorder, that produces non-volatile, human-readable documents. If such a device is not available to the application, or if
the system provides no such device, the lp utility shall exit with a non-zero exit status.

you're doing something wrong

They relicensed it under Apache 2.0 recently