Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript
Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript
Oracle, it's time to free the JavaScript trademark. Join us in asking Oracle to release the trademark, and helping us file a Petition for Trademark Cancellation with the USPTO.
The industry could easily switch to calling it ECMAScript.
You have long ago abandoned the JavaScript trademark, and it is causing widespread, unwarranted confusion and disruption.
JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language, powering websites everywhere. Yet, few of the millions who program in it realize that JavaScript is a trademark you, Oracle, control. The disconnect is glaring: JavaScript has become a general-purpose term used by countless individuals and companies, independent of any Oracle product.
[...] it was decided that the language would be called “ECMAScript” instead. (Microsoft happily offered up “JScript”, but no-one else wanted that.) Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and a co-signatory of this letter, wrote in 2006 that “ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.”
I tend to agree with these sentiments
sounds like a skin disease.”
I mean… it does occasionally make my skin crawl
Yeah, sure, just as easily as people switched from saying "Twitter" to saying "X"
lol, the T-shirt with the trademark text paragraphs