> From: Brendan Eich <bren...@mozilla.org> > To: Axel Rauschmayer <a...@rauschma.de> > Cc: Arthur Stolyar <nekr.fab...@gmail.com>, es-discuss list < es-discuss@mozilla.org> > Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 17:32:48 -0800 > Subject: Re: JavaScript 2015? > I wouldn't hold my breath. Sun was not ever in the mood, even when I checked while at Mozilla just before the Oracle acquisition closed. Also, "the community" cannot own a trademark. > > Trademarks must be defended, or you lose them. This arguably has happened to JavaScript. Perhaps the best course is to find out (the hard way) whether this is so. > > /be > > Axel Rauschmayer wrote: >>> >>> This reminds me: Axel (not Alex) cannot recommend "JavaScript 2015" to anything near the Ecma standard, because trademark. :-/ >> >> >> Ah, good point. It’d be lovely if whoever owns the trademark now (Oracle?) could donate it to the community. Or the community buys it via crowd-funded money. >> >> -- >> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer >> a...@rauschma.de <mailto:a...@rauschma.de> >> rauschma.de >> >> >> >
Would this constitute a good question to ask Oracle formally? Probably the best and safest way to check.
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