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0 pointsrangibaby9y ago0 comments

> how this could lead to possible confusion

I sincerely doubt it. There are two groups in the world:

Group A: What the hell is a Mozilla?

Group B: knows the difference between cURL and Mozilla

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Reading some of the stories about users finding mention of cURL in software acknowledgements and emailing for support makes me think that there is a Group C that could easily be confused

JadeNB9y ago

I think your Group C, "easily confused", probably has substantial overlap with Group A, "what is a Mozilla?".

lbotos9y ago

But what about the third who may see a cURL logo after the new Mozilla logo and say, "oh, I didn't realize cURL was a Mozilla project."

gukov9y ago

What about http://? Is it a Mozilla project, too? What a mess.

johnward9y ago

No one even knew curl had a logo until today. I'm guessing 80% of the people that use it have never been to the website.

Nexxxeh9y ago

Ironically I discovered it yesterday when using it to trigger outbound Twilio voice calls from a Windows desktop (for testing the local Lync client). The Windows binary has the logo.

(Off-topic, gotta change from ' to " for the example code to work on Windows. I should mention that to Twilio...)

corndoge9y ago

What difference does it make?

regularfry9y ago

Where bug reports go.

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ma2rten9y ago

I think less people know about curl than mozilla, not to mention that curl has a logo (I had no idea).

Esau9y ago

Agreed. I commented on the similarity earlier but I don't think there will ever really be confusion.

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