CUPS main developer was hired by Apple in 2007, and the source code was purchased from him, with open source releases ongoing.
That said, there's not much of an improvement to the device configuration, even in OS X, since this came out, if you have to configure the printer manually.
The one big thing that makes OS X printing so easy is that it tends to autodiscover directly connected USB printers, and most recent networked printers support Bonjour which in most cases "just works".
That said, there's not much of an improvement to the device configuration, even in OS X, since this came out, if you have to configure the printer manually.
The one big thing that makes OS X printing so easy is that it tends to autodiscover directly connected USB printers, and most recent networked printers support Bonjour which in most cases "just works".