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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by monksy on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:43PM (#21487699)
That's an unreasonably huge leap for the audience to make that connection.
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by Mirioron on Saturday November 09, 2019 @02:12AM (#21490120)
As somebody else pointed or, that's the explanation Sarah Mei gave on Twitter in the past.[0] The tweet about them discovering "3D" is on point.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahmei/status/10732511533604823...

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by monksy on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:09PM (#21495447)
She's not going to care about that.
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by zaphirplane on Friday November 08, 2019 @06:03PM (#21487842)
I wonder if the d3js project is next in the firing line
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by monksy on Friday November 08, 2019 @07:01PM (#21488323)
Can we just cancel javascript?
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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by hoistbypetard on Friday November 08, 2019 @09:11PM (#21489083)
Can the letters "JS" be conflated with some other concept that offends someone who is inclined to make a stink on twitter and has a lot of followers? It could happen...

Unfortunately we'd probably just rename it something less offensive like ECMAScript.

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Re:Open Letter to the Linux Foundation by erik_seaberg on Saturday November 09, 2019 @07:15PM (#21495479)
“Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases …”
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