> "We seem to be in full agreement. I only wanted to spell out my own reasoning for using curl and not wget, since you explicitly said you were interested in this information, and I suppose there are others that think like me in this regard as well :)"

I'm grateful for your input. Sorry if I came across as elitist - that wasn't my intention but in reflection, in does read a little that way.

> "One popular UNIX-like OS that comes with curl and not wget is OS X. That might also drive adoption."

Ahh interesting point. I guess that would have an impact.