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Not necessarily incompatible, but there are definitely issues

Not necessarily incompatible, but there are definitely issues

Posted Jul 19, 2007 9:57 UTC (Thu) by NRArnot (subscriber, #3033)
In reply to: Not necessarily incompatible, but there are definitely issues by dwheeler
Parent article: Apple buys cups

Precedent (yellow pages / NIS) suggests that program names don't have to be changed. The NIS programs are still mostly named yp*. IANAL but I suspect it would be an issue only if there is a program called precisely cups, rather than cupssomething. (/usr/[share,lib]/cups do exist on my system).


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