17th September 2024 - Link Blog
Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript. (via) Oracle have held the trademark on JavaScript since their acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2009. They’ve continued to renew that trademark over the years despite having no major products that use the mark.
Their December 2019 renewal included a screenshot of the Node.js homepage as a supporting specimen!
Now a group lead by a team that includes Ryan Dahl and Brendan Eich is coordinating a legal challenge to have the USPTO treat the trademark as abandoned and “recognize it as a generic name for the world’s most popular programming language, which has multiple implementations across the industry.”
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