Oracle is just acting as expected. Nice of Apple to stand up for their developers.
Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
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Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
#112I guess it depends on what your app "Javascript" does. The key idea in trademark disputes/claims is that you are probably ok as long as your mark isn't confusingly similar to a widely known valid mark by another entity/owner. So if your Javascript app has nothing whatsoever to do with the programming language or computer in general, Apple shouldn't take down your app. Eons ago Apple Computer was sued by Apple Corp (B…
From the head of the linked Reddit discussion: Just received this email from Apple about my app(Html, css, javascript snippet editor). In other words, it appears to be an app that's an IDE for various syntaxes, and JavaScript is one of them. IMHO (not a lawyer, but just observation) simply mentioning a trademark in reference to your product having something to do with it is completely legit. Otherwise we'd be seeing…
> Otherwise we'd be seeing companies like Apple go after all the smartphone case manufacturers that mention "iPhone" since that's what their product is for.
Apple does that. They have a "Made For i" accessory program, and go after third-party accessory distributors (not manufacturers) who use their trademarks without permission: https://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/
Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
#113It is unfortunate that "ECMAScript" is simply a terrible name. I understand why the term is used, but that doesn't make it inherently good, easy to say, or memorable. Fortunately the ES shorthand is more workable (e.g. ES6, ES2017, etc).
We should just call it JS. That way the filename extension still makes sense.
Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I had to explain Oracle to anyone I would only say that their motto is simply "Do all evil."
I expect one day to learn that Larry Ellison bought that Hawaiian island in order to hunt people for sport. 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.
Not that I'd have a detailed knowledge about him, but there is:
https://givingpledge.org/Pledger.aspx?id=192
Something which only few persons choose to do
Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
#115I 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.
Indeed. When they said: > The unauthorized display of our client's intellectual property is likely to cause consumers encountering this app to mistakenly believe that it emanates from, or is provided under a license from, Oracle. I think most of us would agree that no , literally almost no one familiar with JavaScript would have believed that app to “emanate from, or be provided under a license from, Oracle”. I know…
" When I think of JS, Oracle is like the last company I would think of." - Check out Oracle JET (JavaScript Toolkit), it's an open source library for modern web developers : https://github.com/oracle/oraclejet
Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed. When they said: > The unauthorized display of our client's intellectual property is likely to cause consumers encountering this app to mistakenly believe that it emanates from, or is provided under a license from, Oracle. I think most of us would agree that no , literally almost no one familiar with JavaScript would have believed that app to “emanate from, or be provided under a license from, Oracle”. I know…
" When I think of JS, Oracle is like the last company I would think of." - Check out Oracle JET (JavaScript Toolkit), it's an open source library for modern web developers : https://github.com/oracle/oraclejet
Which no 'modern' web developer would go anywhere near!
Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
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If you have a pretty low opinion of Oracle just because of that, you don't know much about Oracle.
Are you saying the reality is much worse? Or that Oracle has a bright side?
It's one of the market leader in enterprise software and database for decades. Don't be just another hater.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying the reality is much worse? Or that Oracle has a bright side?
It's one of the market leader in enterprise software and database for decades. Don't be just another hater.
I’ve never heard a developer say good things about Oracle databases though.
Being the #1 doesn’t mean you’re right. It just means your ads work.
Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
#119Re: Oracle owns “JavaScript”, so Apple is taking down my app
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This must be the reason that you can't say Legos online without being corrected.
I think its just grating for grammar nazis, rather than a legal issue. It's like saying sheeps.
That should be "it's just grating" ;-)
It's not quite the same as sheep/sheeps. Saying "there are 2 sheep in the field" is fine but saying "there are 2 Lego on the floor" still sounds a bit weird. You would have to use "there are 2 Lego bricks on the floor".
It's because Lego is an uncountable noun, like rice or sand. E.g. "there are 2 grains of rice on the floor" is fine but "there are 2 rice on the floor" is not. Saying "there are 2 rices on the floor" sounds very bad, and is the equivalent to using "Legos" instead of "Lego bricks".