It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle. We’ve submitted...

It's done. Now it’s your turn, Oracle.

We’ve submitted a formal petition to cancel the JavaScript trademark: it is generic, Oracle has abandoned it, and Oracle committed fraud on the USPTO during the last trademark renewal.

Oracle has until January 4th to respond, or the case will go into default, which will result in the trademark being canceled.

It's time to #FreeJavaScript.

https://deno.com/blog/deno-v-oracle

#deno #node #javascript #typescript #webdev

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3 comments

Bill Zaumen

@deno_land Oddly, JavaScript was first developed by Netscape, using more or less a subset of Java's syntax, which itself was based on C syntax (most of Sun Microsystem's software was written in C, so copying parts of its syntax for Java made a lot of sense - it made life easier for programmers using both). Netscape failed and there were a series of business deals, acquisitions, etc., which is why Oracle has any claim to a JavaScript trademark at all.