> The provided functionality is certainly a very stripped down and limited version of the libcurl API. A fun detail is that the quite bluntly just link to the libcurl API documentation to describe how xCurl works.
is IMO a major dick move. It seems inevitable that doing this will cause users with questions about xCurl to seek out curl maintainers/forums for support with xCurl (as with the email that prompted this article), even though they have no insight at all into how xCurl works. And some of those people might not be very happy with the response "we have no idea - try contacting Microsoft".
Now, that might not have been Microsoft's deliberate intent, but I don't see how it's anything but completely forseeable, and should have been avoided.
(Yes, Microsoft need to credit curl with the copyright info and license, but the place for that is the "Credits" and/or "License" parts of the documentation, not the "Usage"/"API reference" parts.)