Lena to Programming@programming.devEnglish • 9 days agoJavaScript™ Trademark Update | Denodeno.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1109arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-square@Kissaki@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish7•8 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
minus-square@humanspiral@lemmy.calinkfedilink3•8 days agoSun 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.
minus-square@sik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilink2•7 days agoIt was named after Java, which they already had the trademark for.
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.
It was named after Java, which they already had the trademark for.