I'd suggest we tone it down a bit - stuff like "nor are we scared" and
"this behemoth" might simply piss-off someone witha thin skin and
there's no real need. I'd probably have written:

During the summer of 2001, curl.com has been busy promoting their
client-side programming language for the web, named CURL.

We are in no way associated with curl.com or their CURL programming
language.

Our project name curl has been in effective use since 1998. We were not
the first computer-related project to use the name "curl" and do not
claim first-hand rights to that name.

We recognize that we will be living in parallel with curl.com and wish
them every success.

or something like that

rick jones

Daniel Stenberg wrote:
>
> Hey
>
> There's an article and ongoing discussion on slashdot
> [http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/08/06/2113227], regarding the
> programming language CURL from curl.com.
>
> Lots of people ask how this will affect our project, who was first and
> will they sue us or will there be a trademark issue here?
>
> Therefore, I've added a new paragraph to the FAQ that hopefully answers
> to some concerns:
>
> 1.7 What about CURL from curl.com?
>
> During the summer 2001, curl.com has been busy advertising their
> client-side programming language for the web, named CURL.
>
> We are in no way associated with curl.com or their version of CURL. We
> have never heard anything from them, nor are we scared of any
> trademark or naming lawsuits.
>
> Our project name curl has been in effective use since 1998. We weren't
> the first computer related project to name itself curl either, so we
> don't claim any first-hand rights to the name.
>
> We realize that we'll have to live in parallell with this behemoth,
> there's nothing we can do about it.
>
> (This text is soon available in the online version of the FAQ as well.)
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- curl dude -- http://curl.haxx.se/

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