News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark. Parent comment

Re:Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark by arllk on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @09:42PM (#42630323)
The only JavaScript offering from Oracle that I know of is GraalVM[0]. It's funny though - they use "JavaScript" and "ECMAScript" interchangeably in their docs. They call it "A high-performance embeddable JavaScript runtime for Java" but then tout it as "ECMAScript Compliant", basically acknowledging that JavaScript is defined by ECMAScript specs and the terms mean the same thing.

[0] https://www.graalvm.org/javascript/

(Not a lawyer, just a nerd observing terminology)

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark by fsckboy on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:57PM (#42631084)
not sure if this is why they do it, but trademark law requires you to have a generic name for your product. "Kleenex brand facial tissue"

not having and using a generic name creates the danger of people attaching your trademarked name as the generic and you might lose your trademark.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Oracle Will Not Voluntarily Withdraw JavaScript Trademark by giancarlostoro on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @11:19PM (#42630862)
Them calling it ECMAScript in some instances means that it follows the actual ECMA spec for ECMAScript (what everyone calls JavaScript historically). Them calling it JavaScript implies it could be their flavor, or something like Node and not necessarily strictly ECMAScript, at least that'd be the reason I'd use it interchangeably.
[ Parent | on HN ]