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Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

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Re: Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

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Post by gumby »

Can’t you just call it ECMAScript, or are they somehow different these days?

Guy Steele told me once that Sun registered it with ECMA so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard and that ECMA was the easiest/fastest/most compliant way to get there.

I’d always thought that ECMA was a weird place to register it.

Re: Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

#15

Post by thedebuglife »

gumby wrote: post #12

Can’t you just call it ECMAScript, or are they somehow different these days? Guy Steele told me once that Sun registered it with ECMA so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard and that ECMA was the easiest/fastest/most compliant way to get there. I’d always thought that ECMA was a weird place to register it.

I believe ECMAScript is the specification of which JavaScript is an implementation.

Re: Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

#17

Post by skissane »

c3534l wrote: post #14

Could you successfully argue that its generic at this point? I strongly doubt anyone seriously thinks when you talk about Javascript, you're talking about only products and tools made by Oracle.

I am guessing that Oracle is worried that if they give up (or somehow lose) the JavaScript trademark, that may threaten their ownership of the Java trademark - the later is far more important to them than the former.

Re: Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark

#18

Post by jahewson »

gumby wrote: post #12

Can’t you just call it ECMAScript, or are they somehow different these days? Guy Steele told me once that Sun registered it with ECMA so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard and that ECMA was the easiest/fastest/most compliant way to get there. I’d always thought that ECMA was a weird place to register it.

> so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard

Well, yes that’s the reason why standards bodies exist :)

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