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Re:Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark by IshKebab on Sunday September 04, 2022 @03:46AM (#32710817)
It's not. ECMAScript is just an awkward name they used because people couldn't agree to use "JavaScript". They're really the same thing.

Implementations of ECMAScript/JavaScript are things like V8 and Spidermonkey.

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Re:Dear Oracle, Please Release the JavaScript Trademark by btilly on Sunday September 04, 2022 @05:27AM (#32711336)
And people couldn't agree to use JavaScript because the term was trademarked.
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