Michael Sweet (programmer)
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Michael Sweet is a computer scientist and the primary developer and architect of CUPS, flPhoto, HTMLDOC, and Mini-XML. He was the original developer of the Gimp-Print software, now known as Gutenprint, and contributes to other free software projects such as FLTK, Newsd, and Samba. He co-owns and runs Easy Software Products, a small company that specialized in Internet and printing technologies and[1] currently sells HTML publishing software.
Sweet graduated in Computer Science at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica-Rome. He then spent several years working for the Navy on real-time computer graphics. After releasing a freeware tool topcl, Sweet set up Easy Software Products and developed the ESP Print software. He started work on the Common Unix Printing System in 1997 and in 1999 released it under the GNU GPL license along with the commercially licensed ESP Print Pro.[1]
In February 2007, Apple Inc. hired Sweet and purchased the CUPS source code.[2][3] He continued to develop CUPS at Apple.
Sweet is also the chair of the Printer Working Group (PWG),[4] secretary of the IPP working group,[5] a designated expert for IPP and the Printer MIB for the IETF,[6] and is active in printing standards development within the PWG. He has written several books including Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems, OpenGL Superbible, and CUPS (Common Unix Printing System).[1]
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References
- ^ a b c Michael Sweet. (28 August 2001). CUPS (Common Unix Printing System). Pearson Education. pp. 317–. ISBN 978-0-672-32196-2.
- ^ http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071307-apple-acquires-cups-printing.html
- ^ "CUPS",CUPS Purchased by Apple Inc. (press release), July 11, 2007.
- ^ http://www.pwg.org/chair/index.html
- ^ http://www.pwg.org/ipp
- ^ http://www.iana.org/protocols
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