JavaScript™
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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.
  • Zachariah@lemmy.world
    152·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • wkk@lemmy.world
      14·
      2 months ago

      […] 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

      • KissakiEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        sounds like a skin disease.”

        I mean… it does occasionally make my skin crawl

    • guy@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      Yeah, sure, just as easily as people switched from saying “Twitter” to saying “X”