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Today's goated open source developer: Michael Sweet (from Sudbury, Ontario 🇨🇦)
- Created the Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) in 1999, code used by Apple (bought a license in 2002) and Linux to this day!
- 2007: Apple purchased the CUPS project, acquihiring Michael to work on the printing stack across macOS and iOS. (As far as I can tell, Apple stopped maintaining/releasing public updates at some point.)
- 2020: Left Apple to work on a more open community fork of CUPS under the org OpenPrinting (actively developed, last commit 5 hours ago)
- Today, he operates a family-run robotics and 2d/3d printing company with his wife in Sudbury.
- Also made lots of other cool tools and libraries, like htmldoc (website -> epub), AirPrint, Internet Printing Protocol, and more.
Links:
https://www.msweet.org
https://www.lakesiderobotics.ca
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