[paedubucher]

I recently also suffered through some horrors with Cups. A new version was released, and old drivers didn't work together with it. And the manufacturer (Samsung, which sold its printer business to HP) didn't provide updated drivers, of course. So I'm happy to have some reliable facility to at least print PostScript. But Cups is fine if you get a proper and current driver for your printer.

[tyingq]

I imagine being a CUPS maintainer is not a good experience. They did something great, but probably only hear from end users when they are frustrated and not inclined to be civil.

[projektfu]

Doesn’t Apple maintain CUPS?

[tyingq]

Maybe? Wikipedia says

"In March 2002, Apple Inc. adopted CUPS as the printing system for Mac OS X 10.2.[6] In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired chief developer Michael Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.[7] On December 20, 2019 Michael Sweet announced on his blog that he had left Apple.[8]"

[projektfu]

I hope they recognize it’s a little bit important. A lot of their users still produce paper.

[stqism]

On his blog post he mentioned that there are still 2 other apple engineers working on CUPS, and that Apple still very much owns the code.

I can’t imagine it going away anytime soon.

[lights0123]

They use it in every device they sell that can print (iOS and macOS), so it's pretty important for them.

[mekster]

That's not just cups but for every other printer/environment when a product loses support.