[cooper12]

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.

[rangibaby]

> 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

[bearcobra]

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

[JadeNB]

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

[lbotos]

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."

[gukov]

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

[johnward]

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.

[Nexxxeh]

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...)

[corndoge]

What difference does it make?

[regularfry]

Where bug reports go.

[projektfu]

That's pretty funny.

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

[ma2rten]

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

[Esau]

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