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JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno (deno.com)
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[–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

From the article, https://javascript.tm/ is a petition you can sign for Oracle to drop the trade mark claim

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    • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Marking August 7th to my calendar. Stupid greedy Oracle should've let JS trademark go long time ago.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    JavaScript is an Oracle's trademark?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They bought Java (not javascript) a long time ago. With, as far as I can tell, the sole intent of monetization through legal action.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They bought Java (not javascript)

    They bought Sun, which "owned" Java and JavaScript.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Interesting, I didn't realize they got the javascript trademark when they got Sun. I wouldn't be surprised if a judge threw out the trademark as generic at this point, if they understood technology, but that's a big if. I knew naming rights were a big reason that people tried to roll the name back to ECMAScript, but that never really took off.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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

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    • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Oracle can fuck off

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    I had no idea there was a trademark on the JavaScript name.

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    [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    Godspeed Deno and mandatory fuck Oracle

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I could laugh, I could cry… what a fucking parasite of a company. They are basically just PatientTrolls© trolls at this point. Why didn’t I renew my copyright on trolling 😭

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Oracle are proper dickheads.

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