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Re:Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark by jahewson on Sunday September 04, 2022 @01:44AM (#32710188)
> so they could tell people (governments?) that it was a registered standard

Well, yes that’s the reason why standards bodies exist :)

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Re:Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark by gumby on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:27AM (#32710397)
Normally standards bodies deliberate over the standard. IIRC Guy was saying that they just handed a document to ECMA and and it was stamped “approved”.

Hmm, I see the same was done with Dart…

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Re:Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark by lozenge on Sunday September 04, 2022 @02:55AM (#32710555)
And C# as well
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Re:Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark by unilynx on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:13AM (#32710652)
And the MS Office XML formats
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