{"id":32377,"date":"2020-10-15T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=a0efd7cd111c64fafb856fcd81129dc9"},"modified":"2020-10-15T16:30:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T20:30:57","slug":"has-apple-abandoned-cups-the-linuxs-worlds-widely-used-open-source-printing-system-seems-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32377","title":{"rendered":"Has Apple abandoned CUPS, the Linux&#8217;s world&#8217;s widely used open-source printing system? Seems so"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/10\/15\/apple_cups_develoment\/\">The Register<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Michael Sweet (who is responsible for almost all CUPS commits) left Apple and has a fork that is being actively maintained.  \r\n\r\nI wonder if Apple has a plan here.  Are they just ignoring the license and keeping their patches in-house?  Have they decided printing is not a priority and are just parasiting a hand-me-down for \"good enough\"?<\/div><h4>After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don't need Cupertino<\/h4> <p>The official public repository for CUPS, an Apple open-source project widely used for printing on Linux, is all-but dormant since the lead developer left Apple at the end of 2019.&hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After only one public Git commit this year, penguinstas think: Fork it, we don&#8217;t need Cupertino The&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}