Re: Canon printer minor quibble
On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 23:42:17 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Friday 30 September 2016 19:25:52 Brian wrote:
> > Maintaining that CUPS is an official acronym for "Common Unix Printing
> > System" has, so far, not been substantiated.
>
> Brian, do drop it. No-one, but no-one, has claimed it is the *official*name.
> It can't be because of the trademark problem. There is often a large gap
> between something's name and its official name.
You mean we have spent all this time arguing about nothing when we could
have been doing something useful?
Dropped.
> No-one who has actually seen the bottle could doubt that HP stands for Houses
> of Parliament. I have only just checked that, but what else could it be with
> that picture? And it was NEVER called Houses of Parliament, but always HP.
"Please pass the Houses of Parliament sauce" *is* a bit of a mouthful.
Thank goodness for acronyms.
--
Brian.
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