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I'm surprised that "JavaScript" has not become a generic trademark [0]. Examples from the Wikipedia article include Thermos, Chapstick, and Dumpster. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
This must be the reason that you can't say Legos online without being corrected.
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Another comment pointed out that Netscape originally planned to call it LiceScript but was encouraged by Sun to change it JavaScript so I say if we're going to change the name we go with the original one. Either that or argue that the original holder of the Java trademark essentially blessed the use of its mark and continue calling it JavaScript.
> LiceScript Ahem, "LiveScript": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History
I knew that Microsoft had to call their ECMAScript implementation JScript, but it never dawned on me that Oracle is the current owner of the "JavaScript" trademark: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2416017&caseSearchType=US_... Between this and Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against Google for their use of Java in Android, I have a pretty low opinion of Oracle.
If I had to explain Oracle to anyone I would only say that their motto is simply "Do all evil."
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App author here, the name is: "HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, HTML, Snippet Editor". The app was written long time ago and I'm surprised to receive an email from Apple about it at all. Here is the link so you can see how it's shown in the App Store, I don't think anyone would associate this app with Oracle! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/html5-css-javascript-html-sn...
It's in the (unwieldy) name? Have you considered changing the name to, say, Snippet Editor?
I knew that Microsoft had to call their ECMAScript implementation JScript, but it never dawned on me that Oracle is the current owner of the "JavaScript" trademark: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2416017&caseSearchType=US_... Between this and Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against Google for their use of Java in Android, I have a pretty low opinion of Oracle.
I knew that Microsoft had to call their ECMAScript implementation JScript, but it never dawned on me that Oracle is the current owner of the "JavaScript" trademark: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2416017&caseSearchType=US_... Between this and Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against Google for their use of Java in Android, I have a pretty low opinion of Oracle.
If I had to explain Oracle to anyone I would only say that their motto is simply "Do all evil."
I mean he dresses and grooms himself like the evil alternate universe version of a nice person. And everything I’ve heard is that he’s a horrible manchild.
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If I had to explain Oracle to anyone I would only say that their motto is simply "Do all evil."
It's more accurately "take money" — don't anthropomorphize them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
I knew that Microsoft had to call their ECMAScript implementation JScript, but it never dawned on me that Oracle is the current owner of the "JavaScript" trademark: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=2416017&caseSearchType=US_... Between this and Oracle's ongoing lawsuit against Google for their use of Java in Android, I have a pretty low opinion of Oracle.
If you have a pretty low opinion of Oracle just because of that, you don't know much about Oracle.