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Back when I forked and redesigned an embedded network analysis and packet dumping tool, I did not change one letter in the name. I gave it a completely differen
by peterwwillis 7y ago
Back when I forked and redesigned an embedded network analysis and packet dumping tool, I did not change one letter in the name. I gave it a completely different name, and credited the original author, even after 95% of the original code was changed.
The purpose was twofold: 1) respect to the original author whose ideas and work made it easy for me to attempt this project, and 2) I didn't want my bastardized horrible code to reflect on the original project or cause confusion.
Curl is the most widely used HTTP request tool outside of a browser. Calling your fork of it "crurl" is like forking "Linux" and calling it "Linox". This is a dick move.