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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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