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Everything was fine because Sun owned the Javascript trademark. Oracle now owns that trademark today https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERI

by hajile 6y ago

Everything was fine because Sun owned the Javascript trademark. Oracle now owns that trademark today https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_... For what it's worth, Microsoft lost a lawsuit over their Java clone called J. Their Javascript clone was called JScript. They made .net and C# instead and probably would have tried to make a new web language except that there was no room. One could argue that that VB.net was that language to some degree.

ojosilva 6y ago
In fact Microsoft had their own browser scripting language, called VBScript. It was released in 1996 and only ran (runs) on Internet Explorer browsers (client-side) and Windows as an interpreter (Wscript.exe). I ended-up using it extensively for a period of time from 1998 to 2002 to automate webpages that only ran in the intranet. I also used Wscript to run certain OLE or ODBC based automation (ie. grab data from Excel and write to a file) that was clunky to write in Perl. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript
DonHopkins 6y ago
Now look at what's become of Sun's trademarked logo: Zuckerberg’s not-so-subtle message to Facebook employees: Don’t end up like Sun Microsystems Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has put a pretty hefty reminder for Facebook employees to keep striving for relevancy right outside the front door. An aging Sun Microsystems sign, on the back side of the Facebook sign, is a well-placed message to them. https://www.geekwire.com/2014/zuckerbergs-not-subtle-message-facebook-employees-dont-end-like-sun-microsystems/ https://www.geekwire.com/2014/zuckerbergs-not-subtle-message...