A bit unfair as the main reason it is installed on billions of devices is that it is FOSS.
It's like giving to charity and then being aggravated that it was used to generate lots of money, you can't retroactively change your mind. Although they can always stop updating curl if it is that bad for them.
> A bit unfair as the main reason it is installed on billions of devices is that it is FOSS.
You are right, but I wanted to show current mindset. Redis, ElasticSearch, Mongo, HashiCorp stack were also FOSS and landscape is changing. Same could have happened to cURL
We're living at the bottom of a gravity well, so we don't pay for air.
Once upon a time, even economists thought that automation could make food, shelter, and routine health care too cheap to meter; in such a world would we then be interacting with each other —as the XIX aristocracy did?— chiefly via shared interests and hobbies?
MBA: they must be making 10B$/year?
Engineer: no, this is just a hobby