USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark

Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by jfengel on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:20AM (#42245982)

That's probably the right thing to do, but "Javascipt" was always a terrible name for it. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Java. It was just an early bit of dotcom marketing. They had aspirations of getting the two to work together, but they gave up on that almost immediately.

For a while, Google would conflate Java and Javascript when searching. That was really aggravating.

"ECMAScript" isn't a great name, either, but it at least doesn't confuse people. Personally, I liked "Livescript" as a name.

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by NWoodsman on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @12:06PM (#42247493)

It needs to be WebScript of course!

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by ldargin on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @10:50AM (#42246772)

How about "JahScript" since it is the lord of the scripting languages?

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by edflsafoiewq on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @11:44AM (#42247217)

I think this would violate the second commandment of the Decalogue.

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by fragmede on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:23AM (#42246009)

browserscript, since that's where it originated, even though it's outgrown that.

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by yesguidance on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:24AM (#42246023)

Lets just call it scriptscript and move on :)

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by gedy on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @10:07AM (#42246401)

I misread that as "Superscript" and rather like it

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by gmiller123456 on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @12:26PM (#42247708)

You don't have to look far to find one language naming itself to associate itself with another language it isn't really related to. E.g. C# has very little in common with C. But, ironically, it's popularity likely played a role in the naming of J#. Not to mention all the flavors of BASIC that resemble virtually nothing like the original.

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Re:USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle's JavaScript trademark by WorldMaker on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:20PM (#42249615)

"ES" seems to be the long term winning acronym ("ESM" for the module format, other things like that), so maybe something "backwards compatible" with that like "EverywhereScript" or "EternalScript"?

(Harder to find "JS" compatibles, too. "JunkScript"? I know a lot of people wouldn't mind that one, but it does seem too mean.)

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