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.
Interesting, I didn’t realize they got the javascript trademark when they got Sun. I wouldn’t be surprised if a judge threw out the trademark as generic at this point, if they understood technology, but that’s a big if. I knew naming rights were a big reason that people tried to roll the name back to ECMAScript, but that never really took off.
JavaScript is an Oracle’s trademark?
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.
They bought Java (not javascript) a long time ago. With, as far as I can tell, the sole intent of monetization through legal action.
They bought Sun, which “owned” Java and JavaScript.
Interesting, I didn’t realize they got the javascript trademark when they got Sun. I wouldn’t be surprised if a judge threw out the trademark as generic at this point, if they understood technology, but that’s a big if. I knew naming rights were a big reason that people tried to roll the name back to ECMAScript, but that never really took off.