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Any person who's used an Internet-connected device has likely had curl involved. I'd be proud too if my work was one of the backbone components to modern society.

Probably when companies start paying him for it.

If you want billion dollar corporations to pay you then you should probably include a clause "this is free unless you're a billion dollar corporation in which case you have to pay me" in the license.

Ah but then it's not free software and the FSF will frown at you, because billion dollar corporations are people too. Tough luck.

Why not let the man be proud of his work? I'd be if I were in his shoes.

Out of curiosity, if that bothers you, for whatever reason — why'd you come into this thread? Wouldn't it have been better for everyone involved to just skip it?

Why are you so upset about it? Curl is big and it's being used literally everywhere while having little to no appreciation from corporations who use it, just like ffmpeg

And when a cve is found everyone yells and says why doesn't someone rewrite it in rust. It is freakishly huge, and the tests and fuzzing are very good at this point. I do wonder if there isn't a subset of the functionality that is used much more frequently that we could RiR.

Why shouldn't he be proud of his tool that is basically the default tool for doing and describing anything HTTP-related (and not just HTTP-related)? That is used on almost any platform people are using?

sour grapes?

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