Apple buys cups

Apple buys cups

> The real threat, perhaps, is that Mr. Sweet will find himself carrying a lot of Apple-specific responsibilities (his statement in the sale announcement carefully did not say how much he would continue working on CUPS) and that the rate of outside contributions might slow as developers worry about what Apple might do. That could significantly slow the rate at which CUPS moves forward, to the community's cost.

I think this could be more of a problem for the Fltk toolkit than CUPS. At least several years ago, Mr. Sweet was pretty active on Fltk (it's used by the Easy Software's tools because Fltk is very lightweight and portable), but I think Apple is more interested in CUPS than Fltk development...