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Re: Canon printer minor quibble

From Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Canon printer minor quibble
Date 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
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On Fri 30 Sep 2016 at 11:00:13 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 03:51:27PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > The People
> > can continue to say what they want but it does not change the fact that
> > the official name of the software is CUPS.
> 
> Yes, that is the new Official Name.

Good. Glad we sorted that out.

> Nobody(*) gives a flying leap what the Official Name is.  The question was
> what CUPS stands for.  It stands for Common Unix (or UNIX) Printing System.

Nobody reading the official documentation or source code would find
anything which says what CUPS stands for.
 
> (*) Except lawyers, and you.

I wouldn't want to disrespect the work of the KDE folk by calling their
software the "K Desktop Environment". That's all apart from it being
inaccurate.

-- 
Brian.

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Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 17:00 +0200
  Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-26 18:20 +0200
    Re: Canon printer minor quibble deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-09-26 19:20 +0200
      Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 01:20 +0200
    Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-27 01:10 +0200
      Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-28 00:00 +0200
        Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-28 00:50 +0200
          Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-28 12:30 +0200
            Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 17:10 +0200
              Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-29 19:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 15:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 19:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 01:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 15:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 16:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 16:40 +0200
              Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-29 23:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 14:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 14:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 15:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 15:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 15:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Frank <zuiderduin@gmx.com> - 2016-09-30 16:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 16:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 16:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-09-30 17:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-30 17:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 20:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Charlie <ariestao1@ipstarmail.com.au> - 2016-09-30 23:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 00:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 21:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-10-02 01:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 16:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 17:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-09-30 17:30 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 17:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-30 17:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-09-30 20:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 19:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 15:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 23:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-30 23:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-30 23:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 07:50 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 10:40 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-01 12:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-01 12:10 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 21:00 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-10-05 22:20 +0200
                Re: Canon printer minor quibble Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-06 01:30 +0200

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