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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by scarface74 on Friday November 22, 2019 @07:31PM (#21611547)
More importantly, CUPS and driverless printing standards have solved the problem (os-specific print drivers) that cloud print was designed to work around.

Guess who owns CUPS?

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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by arbie on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:17PM (#21612211)
No one? It is an open standard originally created by Apple.
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Re:Google Kills Cloud Print by scarface74 on Friday November 22, 2019 @10:35PM (#21612277)
Apple owns the copyright to the CUPS software that runs on Linux and Macs.

But the point being that unlike Google, Apple has supported CUPS and actively developed the software for well over a decade even though it doesn’t profit directly from it.

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