Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack

Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by zer00eyz on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:33PM (#10006097)

First of all nice work!

Second there is already a product out there called jaws: http://www.freedomscientific.com/Products/Blindness/JAWS

The last time I checked (and my information is very dated, 5+ years) this was a fairly popular piece of software in the blind community. I also do not know the status of trademark around the term. If you were going to change names, its early days for you now would be the good time to do it.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by mwcampbell on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:47PM (#10006184)

JAWS the screen reader is still quite popular, though an open-source one called NVDA (http://www.nvaccess.org/) is on the rise.

I doubt that FS will come after this project for trademark infringement, since it's not a threat to them, not even in the same field.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by tomphoolery on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @07:47PM (#10007127)

What about JSAWS? :)

(pronounced "J-Sauce" in case you were wondering)

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by zer00eyz on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @04:52PM (#10006208)

I agree with you "minimal" risk assessment. However we have all see companies do stupid things. I don't remember off hand if you are REQUIRED to defend a trademark for it to be enforceable.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by xeromal on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:33PM (#10006418)

You are REQUIRED or you lose it. It is what has caused a lot of lawsuits in the first place.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by ac360 on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @05:20PM (#10006359)

Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not affiliated with Amazon, nor do I know anyone over there. I'm a freelancer in Oakland, CA., and my goal is merely to offer some open source code to help people take advantage of emerging tech so that they can build ridiculously cheap and scalable web apps.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by daveloyall on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @06:38PM (#10006729)

Your project is on the front page of HN right now, so you can be forgiven for not reading every comment with a critical eye--you're busy, I'm sure.

When you get a chance, think of this post and come back and read it again!

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by abraae on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @08:04PM (#10007225)

+1 Beautifully stated. JAWS the essential accessibility tool was the first thing I thought of when I saw the title.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by disordinary on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @11:22PM (#10007872)

You can't put a wordmark on a word like Jaws. These two peices of software are completely different you can't confuse them, they aren't competing, there is no trademark infringement. Its not an issue.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by jimmcslim on Tuesday August 04, 2015 @07:11PM (#10006926)

Maybe this (great!) project could be renamed to the Javascript Amazon Web Application Stack and abbreviated to JAWAS... I'm sure there will be no trademark problems with that AT ALL!

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by elcct on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @05:51AM (#10008727)

Let's hope blind people will not see a problem with this

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by BraveNewCurency on Wednesday August 05, 2015 @10:54PM (#10014296)

I see what you did there.

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Re:Show HN: JAWS – A JavaScript and AWS Stack by tgig on Friday August 07, 2015 @05:24PM (#10025110)

Agree. Beautiful stuff! The second problem with the name JAWS is that it's not very SEO friendly - competing with a lot of stuff. My first reaction was to google for some examples using JAWS, but that pulls up a huge variety of things (including the Freedom Scientific software, which is confusing at first). I give +1 for the JSAWS (j-sauce) acronym.

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