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Comment by hoodoof | Hacker News Reader

This is such a non issue that it didn't even warrant the blog post.

Branding is very often an important issue to open source projects, contributors, organisations, and enthusiastic users. Emotions run high when we get things wrong, and rightly so -- people invest their lives in these worlds.

It's fantastic that Daniel thought ahead to make sure both communities were on the same page, and wrote this post to keep everyone informed and (hopefully) happy.

I wasn't even aware that curl had a logo.

I wasn't aware that curl had a community or website. I always thought of it as just a command in my terminal. Guess my eyes are open just a little bit wider than yesterday.

You really need to listen to this podcast with Daniel on the Changelog. I love his attitude and his approach.

https://changelog.com/podcast/153

He'll listen to it right after the podcasts from the guys who made 'ls' and 'cd'.

Don't forget grepcast!

Same here. `curl(1)` is such a program that you use all the time on many different machines... without ever visiting the home page of the project. I think I saw that curl logo for the first time today...

There was actually a HN comment thread on it for the Mozilla announcement: 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.

> 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

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

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

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

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

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."

What difference does it make?

Where bug reports go.

That's pretty funny.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/

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

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.

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...)

Nowadays outrage is all the rage, I guess communicating early and briefly could nip some minor drama in the bud. This doesn't seem likely, but you never know...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28database_server%29...

You'd think so, yeah, but I'm sure there's going to be some people who just want to be negative about it, and I'm glad that I have a link that I can smack those people with.

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