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Apple now owns CUPS (Linux-Watch)Apple now owns CUPS (Linux-Watch)Posted Jul 14, 2007 4:02 UTC (Sat) by aseigo (guest, #18394)In reply to: Apple now owns CUPS (Linux-Watch) by dlang Parent article: Apple now owns CUPS (Linux-Watch)
> but is this really a problem?
in practice, yes it can be. individual contributors are often hesitant to
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Apple now owns CUPS (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 14, 2007 6:54 UTC (Sat) by dlang (subscriber, #313) [Link] you are looking at the odds of an individual contributer taking action, instead look at the odds of _one of_ the individual contributers taking action.
if the only people who can take action are the project officials (who are hopefully badly overworked merging other people's contributions) and taking action becomes an official action by the group it is far less likely that any action will be taken.
Apple now owns CUPS (Linux-Watch) Posted Jul 14, 2007 12:05 UTC (Sat) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] ...and if the only people who can take action are the legal team which is trained to close copyright violations you'll see that companies will cave that much faster. Compare situation with gcc and with linux kernel.
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