I wonder if you could do it their way instead. Trademark and Cease&desist 🤪

@shaknais easy: the head in the sand method!

@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.

How did it end?

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.

Maybe in the next coming eight years. But probably not.

That was stressful to read ...

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.