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Discussion on: Did you know that Oracle owns the trademark to Javascript?

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Andrew Bone

I think it would be indefensible, that being said IE's interpretation of ECMAScript was called JScript specifically to avoid a fight.

'Javascript' has been trademarked since Netscape introduced it, 23 years ago.

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Nick Karnik

True. Although, Sun owned the trademark. I don't know if it had purchased Netscape and inherited it.

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Andrew Bone

Looks like they introduced it together.

tech-insider.org/java/research/199...

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Nick Karnik

Good find. That is internet gold! I didn’t know that part of JavaScript’s history. I guess it was a couple of years before I got into web development.