Not every theist is a Pentacostal Xian.

Not even every Xian is a Pentacostal Xian.

This is silly. Of course science really isn't the point here. The point is principles. This is all about morality and how Republicans don't really have any. This is an issue where the science shouldn't matter because they have already wrapped themselves up in the flag and are clutching a bible and holding out groups like the Boy Scouts as an example.

Only one thing needs to be said here: "Leave No Trace".

...except that didn't quite happen.

Although "adding a computer" did cause this problem. It caused a simple bit of robust technology to suddenly become exceptionally prone to failure. It created a problem where one did not previously exist.

...an inferior solution for people with no taste that can be easily distracted by shiny things.

If your phone can decode it, I don't want it on my large screen HDTV or projector.

Printers are far more interesting and diverse than hard drives.

Although, there are already very well established standards that any printer manufacturer can use. This is not an unsolved problem.

Companies simply continue to exercise what one might call "personal liberty".

We simply don't need Apple to try and impose "yet another standard".

So did any number of other vendors.

What they are great at is giving people no other option.

You get it whether you want it or not and perhaps whatever old technology you were using is discontinued abruptly with no real recourse.

I had an "ultra mini PC" long before it occurred to Apple to make one.

...and lets not forget TB expansion cards. Not everyone wants to buy a new system or a new system from a particular brand just to get some new feature that obviously can be retrofitted.

> Blame Intel

Why? Just don't fixate on Intel. That's what the rest of us do.

This is funny because my initial impression of CUPS was that it was a step BACKWARDS in some ways. The very features that Apple is using as an excuse to gut CUPS now were already being done with LPD before CUPS even existed.

"Driver less printing" is very old news.

Still it seems a bit gratuitous that Apple would remove anything.

CUPS can already support Apple's new tablet printing mechanism with some very minor tweaks. Perhaps that's why.

Making the code free doesn't address any sort of patent problem. So it doesn't really matter how much of a BSD troll you want to be. The BSDL and any other non-commercial license has exactly the same problems as the GPL. The GPL is hardly special here.

Patent encumbered standards are an entirely orthogonal set of problems to software freedom.