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by wang_li 3598 days ago
> If Linux tools used Microsoft utility names, someone would've been sued.

In a universe where Wine exists, you think someone would be sued if they released an app with a default alias mapping dir to ls?

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Wine implements a set of API's.

curl and wget could be considered trademarks.

wine also ships a regedit.exe, a notepad.exe, ... you can construe this as implementing API (it's usually the motivation) but it gets mushy. PowerShell has a curl also to "implement an interface", however loosely.