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Call it ES2026 officially and let other people devalue MS' trademark as they refer to that (and later versions) as TS.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 11mo ago
Call it ES2026 officially and let other people devalue MS' trademark as they refer to that (and later versions) as TS.
- bayindirh 11mo ago...and we'll have another API warfa^H^H^H^H lawsuit that we had for Java.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 11mo agoWasn't that a copyright issue? I thought the point of contention is that Google allegedly copied Oracle's API design when they re-wrote Java for Android.
- bayindirh 11mo agoWouldn't Microsoft do the same thing when somebody copies the language and names it "TypedWebBrowserScriptbutFree"?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 11mo agohttps://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/LICENSE.tx... The license is Apache 2.0. With the trademark, they can tell everyone not to call their thing TypeScript but at this point, given the license, they can't tell them not to copy it and change it and distribute that new thing (assuming the new distributors do so under the correct conditions).