Sweet has contributed to other free software projects such as FLTK, Newsd, and Samba.
Sweet graduated in Computer Science at the SUNY Institute of Technology in Utica-Rome.
He then spent several years working for TASC and Dyncorp on real-time computer graphics.
[3] Sweet left Apple in December 2019 to start Lakeside Robotics Corporation.
Sweet continues to be secretary of the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) working group,[4] a designated expert for IPP and the Printer management information base (MIB) for the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF),[5] and is active in printing standards development within the PWG.