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minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoOracle? Oracle owns Java, not JavaScript.
minus-squarehumanspiral@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThey ended up with Javascript trademark (afaik, because the name was too close to Java) too. Sued node.js over something related.
minus-squareBatmanAoD@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoApparently the JS name was selected and announced in partnership with Sun from the very beginning, and Sun had the copyright over both Java and JapaScript up until the acquisition by Oracle. I had no idea, but that makes perfect sense.
Oracle? Oracle owns Java, not JavaScript.
They ended up with Javascript trademark (afaik, because the name was too close to Java) too. Sued node.js over something related.
Apparently the JS name was selected and announced in partnership with Sun from the very beginning, and Sun had the copyright over both Java and JapaScript up until the acquisition by Oracle. I had no idea, but that makes perfect sense.