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Re:JavaScript Trademark Update by mcv on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:10AM (#44410515)
Because Microsoft was trying to takeover and change Java, and Sun actually made Java. How is that in any way the same situation as this?
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Re:JavaScript Trademark Update by tgma on Friday July 11, 2025 @12:11AM (#44528318)
Take over and change? They were adding functionality: embrace and extend. It wasn't like most reasonable people wouldn't agree it was lowercase "javascript".

Seems pretty similar to what's happening today.

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