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There was actually a HN comment thread on it for the Mozilla announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13

There was actually a HN comment thread on it for the Mozilla announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13425609. The commenters mainly noted how similar the logos are. This could lead to possible confusion and I think pre-empting it is best to defuse any drama before it starts.

rangibaby 10y ago
> 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
- ma2rten 10y ago
  I think less people know about curl than mozilla, not to mention that curl has a logo (I had no idea).
- Esau 10y ago
  Agreed. I commented on the similarity earlier but I don't think there will ever really be confusion.
- bearcobra 10y ago
  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
  - JadeNB 10y ago
    I think your Group C, "easily confused", probably has substantial overlap with Group A, "what is a Mozilla?".
- lbotos 10y 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."
  - corndoge 10y ago
    What difference does it make?
    - regularfry 10y ago
      Where bug reports go.
      - projektfu 10y ago
        That's pretty funny. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
  - gukov 10y ago
    What about http:// http://? Is it a Mozilla project, too? What a mess.
  - johnward 10y 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.
    - Nexxxeh 10y 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...)

rangibaby 10y ago

> 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

ma2rten 10y ago
I think less people know about curl than mozilla, not to mention that curl has a logo (I had no idea).
Esau 10y ago
Agreed. I commented on the similarity earlier but I don't think there will ever really be confusion.
bearcobra 10y ago
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
- JadeNB 10y ago
  I think your Group C, "easily confused", probably has substantial overlap with Group A, "what is a Mozilla?".
lbotos 10y 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."
- corndoge 10y ago
  What difference does it make?
  - regularfry 10y ago
    Where bug reports go.
    - projektfu 10y ago
      That's pretty funny. https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
- gukov 10y ago
  What about http:// http://? Is it a Mozilla project, too? What a mess.
- johnward 10y 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.
  - Nexxxeh 10y 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...)