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minus-squareKissaki@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·27 days ago The trademark was originally issued to Sun Microsystems on 6 May 1997, and was transferred to Oracle when they acquired Sun in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Trademark
minus-squarehumanspiral@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·27 days agoSun played no, or no authoritative, role in developing javascript. I don’t know how they got the trademark except perhaps no one owning it thought they could monetize the trademark.
minus-squaresik0fewl@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·26 days agoIt was named after Java, which they already had the trademark for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#Trademark
Sun played no, or no authoritative, role in developing javascript. I don’t know how they got the trademark except perhaps no one owning it thought they could monetize the trademark.
It was named after Java, which they already had the trademark for.