In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
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Apple Reportedly Demands App Takedown Because Name Includes 'JavaScript,' Trademarked by Oracle Corp.

The developer community is up in arms today about a post on the Reddit programming forum site in which a developer claims Apple is demanding the takedown of an iOS app on the iTunes store because its ...

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
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Oracle, which owns the 'JavaScript' trademark, has been asked to release the trademark, but has refused, saying it has 'no intention of voluntarily withdrawing it.'

JavaScript is a programming language that plays an important role in building and running the web, along with HTML and CSS. Although the trademark for JavaScript is owned by Oracle, a computer ...
InfoWorld

Oracle refuses to yield JavaScript trademark, Deno Land says

Unless Oracle voluntarily withdraws its claim to own the name ‘JavaScript’ by February 3, the battle over the trademark will go to court. JavaScript runtime provider Deno Land’s efforts to get Oracle ...
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USPTO petitioned to cancel Oracle’s JavaScript trademark

Deno Land has petitioned the US Patent and Trademark Office to strip Oracle of its ownership of the JavaScript trademark, accusing Oracle of trademark abandonment and fraud. Deno Land, maker of the ...
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Rage-quit: Coder unpublished 17 lines of JavaScript and “broke the Internet”

It all started with a request from the developers of a messaging application to an open source developer to change the name of a library. It ended with JavaScript developers around the world crying ...
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In a lawsuit seeking to free the 'JavaScript' trademark from Oracle, the parties objected to the use of an image of the unrelated 'Node.js' as evidence

In a lawsuit filed by a group of engineers seeking to have the programming language 'JavaScript' trademarked by Oracle, Oracle submitted images of a project launched by a third party as evidence of ...