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If you launched an alternative search engine called Gooogle, I don't think Google would consider it a friendly move :)

• jsty 7y ago
  Very true. I probably should've caveated that I don't actually think it's a good name choice, just that I doubt it was chosen to mislead / as an attack on (lib)curl. Given my own uselessness with naming things sometimes, I tend to be forgiving!
  • Spivak 7y ago
    Like we're talking about software developers here. I think it's funny that when a Google engineer does it there's some shadowy motivation to usurp a FOSS downloader library -- like they aren't like the rest of us picking silly names for things. "Hey, curl is a super useful tool, it would be nice if it used our new fancy network protocol" "Yeah, what should we name it?" "Uhh -- wait, I got it. crurl and the library could be libcrurl" "Hilarious! It's perfect!"
• eesmith 7y ago
  Case in point from 2006 - https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/google-chmoogle/3001845.article https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/google-chmoogle/3001845.... : > A new chemistry search engine has been forced to change its name from ’Chmoogle’ to ’eMolecules’ following pressure from the search engine Google.
• Spivak 7y ago
  We're talking about two categories of people. The software developers would have no problem with stuff like this. Go ahead and create a UX toolkit called Fluttershy. But if you mess with someone's actual products that make them money you'd probably hear from their legal team.