I bet it would... wonder if FSF would be willing to invest to create a precedent... or gofundme. But in the end it's probably better to avoid the bloodshed at all. Thank you for your service to the OSS community.
@shaknais from curl's point of view, I expect that the better solution is to ship it as "actually_curl", highlighting to Windows users that "actually_curl" is the actual curl and that other curls installed on their system is not.
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It was asinine to add the aliases without any attempt to handle arguments correctly. It was asinine not to fix it when you pointed it out. It's not like we don't know, as an industry, how to handle breaking changes. You phase them in with increasing warnings until, yes, you break people's scripts. FFS.
I know that there are some people at Microsoft who care about open source, fairness, mutual support etc. I wonder what those people think, e. g., @shanselman, @davidfowl. Sometimes big enterprises get caught up in business rules and compatibility requirements and forget about common sense and fair interactions between humans but there are always people in there who can see through all this and can escalate things in there. As curl users we can probably agree that the alias is pointless.
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Not confusing at all!
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Sometimes big enterprises get caught up in business rules and compatibility requirements and forget about common sense and fair interactions between humans but there are always people in there who can see through all this and can escalate things in there.
As curl users we can probably agree that the alias is pointless.