Comment by _vufv

5 years ago

I have nothing but respect for Daniel, but having a domain like haxx.se while being a maintainer of a general purpose powerful and popular(!) software tool is not smart.

This liability could've been mitigated to some degree by having a more innocuous sounding domain name. Having it as is, given enough time and thanks to the tremendous popularity of libcurl/curl someone somewhere is going to jump to conclusions that Daniel is responsible for making this "race car" hacking tool that script kiddies are now using to wreck his life.

Stalman has failed culturally, distance yourself from the "hacking" culture of the past if you care about your marketability and reputation.