4w ago

JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno

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From the article, https://javascript.tm/ is a petition you can sign for Oracle to drop the trade mark claim
- Has to be done via github though
- you think Oracle cares about petitions?
  
  It's not about caring, it's about the lawyers making the argument javascript's genericness easier
Marking August 7th to my calendar. Stupid greedy Oracle should've let JS trademark go long time ago.
JavaScript is an Oracle's trademark?
- They bought Java (not javascript) a long time ago. With, as far as I can tell, the sole intent of monetization through legal action.
  
  They bought Java (not javascript)
  They bought Sun, which "owned" Java and JavaScript.
- The trademark was originally issued to Sun Microsystems on 6 May 1997, and was transferred to Oracle when they acquired Sun in 2009.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Trademark
  
  Sun played no, or no authoritative, role in developing javascript. I don't know how they got the trademark except perhaps no one owning it thought they could monetize the trademark.
Oracle can fuck off

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