Re: Canon printer minor quibble
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.
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Brian.
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