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 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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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.