> A new chemistry search engine has been forced to change its name from ’Chmoogle’ to ’eMolecules’ following pressure from the search engine Google.

But if you mess with someone's actual products that make them money you'd probably hear from their legal team.

"Hey, curl is a super useful tool, it would be nice if it used our new fancy network protocol"

"Yeah, what should we name it?"

"Uhh -- wait, I got it. crurl and the library could be libcrurl"

"Hilarious! It's perfect!"

As the author of curl points out, it just looks like a typo. When it's this egregious, your only choices are to assume either incompetence or bad faith.

    mcake knead && mcake bake

The smell like some "developer's developer" who thinks he can do a better job of libcurl and is so cocksure that he's going with the name libcrurl. Perhaps he'll put his name on it. Unlikely, as that would require skin in the game.

Whereas your make examples are much easier to visually differentiate.

If curl was trademarked then they would have a strong case here.

Which clearly reads as "the g(oogle) implementation of libcurl"

In any case I admire curl has a binary size of ~1MB, which is 1/5 the size of my filter list for Chrome.