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That's probably the right thing to do, but "Javascipt" was always a terrible name for it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. It was just an early bit of dotcom marketing. They had aspirations of getting the two to work together, but they gave up on that almost immediately. For a while, Google would conflate Java and Javascript when searching. That was really aggravating. "ECMAScript" isn't a great name, eithe…
> has not sold any JavaScript goods or rendered any JavaScript services since acquiring the trademark from Sun Microsystems in 2009. I find this hard to believe. Somewhere in the 159,000 employees of Oracle, someone has made and sold some product using the javascript brand. Just a single example of "Javascript" written on a spec sheet of some product would be enough to defend the trademark.
No, it wouldn't. Simple use of JavaScript somewhere isn't enough for this. Oracle would need to show vigorous trademark enforcement. I use 'JavaScript' generically, with no reference to Oracle or a trademark, and have never heard from an Oracle lawyer. I had no idea who the current owner of the trademark was. I bet 95% of people who use the term have no idea it has any connection to Oracle's legal department. At this…
> Oracle would need to show vigorous trademark enforcement.
It sounds like the current approach is to challenge the registration based on abandonment by non-use. The defense against a challenge of non-use is an example of the trademark being used (by the holder or a licensee) in trade.
A challenge based on abandonment by non-enforcement is also possible, but non-use is easier to show.
That's probably the right thing to do, but "Javascipt" was always a terrible name for it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. It was just an early bit of dotcom marketing. They had aspirations of getting the two to work together, but they gave up on that almost immediately. For a while, Google would conflate Java and Javascript when searching. That was really aggravating. "ECMAScript" isn't a great name, eithe…
How about "JahScript" since it is the lord of the scripting languages?
From http://www.nerdware.org/doc/abriefhistory.html > 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
It does spread like a disease, though. /s
That's probably the right thing to do, but "Javascipt" was always a terrible name for it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. It was just an early bit of dotcom marketing. They had aspirations of getting the two to work together, but they gave up on that almost immediately. For a while, Google would conflate Java and Javascript when searching. That was really aggravating. "ECMAScript" isn't a great name, eithe…
That's probably the right thing to do, but "Javascipt" was always a terrible name for it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. It was just an early bit of dotcom marketing. They had aspirations of getting the two to work together, but they gave up on that almost immediately. For a while, Google would conflate Java and Javascript when searching. That was really aggravating. "ECMAScript" isn't a great name, eithe…
That's probably the right thing to do, but "Javascipt" was always a terrible name for it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. It was just an early bit of dotcom marketing. They had aspirations of getting the two to work together, but they gave up on that almost immediately. For a while, Google would conflate Java and Javascript when searching. That was really aggravating. "ECMAScript" isn't a great name, eithe…
(Harder to find "JS" compatibles, too. "JunkScript"? I know a lot of people wouldn't mind that one, but it does seem too mean.)
From http://www.nerdware.org/doc/abriefhistory.html > 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
Eich started work at Netscape Communications Corporation in April 1995. He originally joined intending to put Scheme "in the browser", but his Netscape superiors insisted that the language's syntax resemble that of Java. As a result, Eich devised a language that had much of the functionality of Scheme, the object-orientation of Self, and the syntax of Java. He completed the first version in ten days in order to accommodate the Navigator 2.0 Beta release schedule. At first the language was called Mocha, but it was renamed LiveScript in September 1995 and finally – in a joint announcement with Sun Microsystems – it was named JavaScript in December.