Case in point from 2006 - https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/google-chmoogle/3001845.... :

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

We're talking about two categories of people. The software developers would have no problem with stuff like this. Go ahead and create a UX toolkit called Fluttershy.

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

Very true. I probably should've caveated that I don't actually think it's a good name choice, just that I doubt it was chosen to mislead / as an attack on (lib)curl. Given my own uselessness with naming things sometimes, I tend to be forgiving!

Like we're talking about software developers here. I think it's funny that when a Google engineer does it there's some shadowy motivation to usurp a FOSS downloader library -- like they aren't like the rest of us picking silly names for things.

"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!"