pinnerite wrote:

I am not an Apple user (my wife is because two of our kids use facetime).

However, I am grateful to Apple for something they DID 'invent' - CUPS.
The Common Unix Printing System which (as far as I know) every Linux
desktop uses for printing.

No need to thank me

They did *not* invent CUPS. They simply paid for it and its author. And it
is still open source as it was from the start, and they can't change that.
It would simply be forked then