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JavaScript™ Trademark Update | Deno (deno.com)

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

JavaScript is an Oracle's trademark?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

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

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It was named after Java, which they already had the trademark for.

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