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@bagder@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The list of top #curl sponsors remains the exact same release after release...

curl top sponsors Jan 2026: Haxx, wolfSSL, Fastly, TeamViewer, GitHub, kirei, IBB, Elastic
curl top sponsors Jan 2026: Haxx, wolfSSL, Fastly, TeamViewer, GitHub, kirei, IBB, Elastic
curl top sponsors Jan 2026: Haxx, wolfSSL, Fastly, TeamViewer, GitHub, kirei, IBB, Elastic
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schnedan
@schnedan@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@bagder would be interesting to have a list what value curl has for certain products and what they contribute financially

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Michele Adduci
@madduci@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@bagder you should ask Microsoft to avoid misusing "curl" in PowerShell as an alias for their own command. This is clearly an abuse

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@bagder@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@madduci https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/08/19/removing-the-powershell-curl-alias/

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Removing the PowerShell curl alias?

PowerShell is a spiced up command line shell made by Microsoft. According to some people, it is a really useful and good shell alternative. Already a long time ago, we got bug reports from confused users who couldn't use curl from their PowerShell prompts and it didn't take long until we figured out that Microsoft … Continue reading Removing the PowerShell curl alias? →
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Hywel Mallett
@hmallett@toot.wales replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@bagder @madduci

ln -s curl Invoke-WebRequest

I wonder what Microsoft would think of that in every Linux distribution…

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Michele Adduci
@madduci@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@bagder since then, it hasn't changed really and never took different paths... What a tragedy

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shadowwwind
@shadowwwind@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@bagder the image didn't load any logos for me at first

Happy that you _do_ have top sponsors

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