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> The history is convoluted, but it boils down to a matter of > copyright: For legal reasons, the standards organization, > Ecma International, was unable to
by tingletech 14y ago
> The history is convoluted, but it boils down to a matter of
> copyright: For legal reasons, the standards organization,
> Ecma International, was unable to use the name “JavaScript”
> for its standard."
(from the sample chapter PDF)
He must mean "a matter of trademark" rather than "a matter of copyright".
- dherman 14y agoThanks for the erratum report. I always mix those two up! :-/ I've added it to the errata page: https://github.com/effectivejs/site/wiki/Errata https://github.com/effectivejs/site/wiki/Errata (Let me know if I got your name wrong for the credit; I followed links from your HN profile.) Thanks, Dave