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Deno vs Oracle: The ugly custody battle for JavaScript… (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is there a tldw? Not opposed to getting into details I just don’t have the means to watch the video.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    TL;DW from my vague memories:

    Oracle got the trademark for JavaScript because they bought the company who made it. Now they have no involvement in the JavaScript ecosystem aside from making a library that barely anyone is using. The JavaScript standard has to refer to JavaScript as ECMAScript because Oracle doesn't want anything to do with it and won't allow other people to use the JavaScript name.

    The Node.JS/Done guy says that's stupid and had been requesting Oracle to release the trademark into the public domain for years which Oracle had always ignored/refused. More recently, Node.JS/Deno guy took Oracle to court for holding onto the JavaScript copyright with no intention of doing anything with it which ended in failure with Oracle claiming they're involved in the ecosystem thanks to that one library they made.

    The guy who created JavaScript agrees that's stupid but can't help.

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