I'm not sure how it transferred, but when the dust settled (over 12 years ago) Sun owned the Java and JavaScript trademarks.
-Rick On Friday, October 5, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Arunoda Susiripala wrote: > I think they took it from Netscape. May be Netscape sold it when they are > winding up. > > On Friday, October 5, 2012, Mark Hahn <[email protected] > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > >> the fact that Oracle owns the trademark "JavaScript", acquired along with > >> Sun. > > How did sun get it? > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Rick Waldron <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > So, is no one else nervous about the fact that Oracle owns the trademark > > "JavaScript", acquired along with Sun. If they develop a JavaScript > > implementation it gives them grounds to "defend the mark". > > -Rick > > > > On Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Jonathan Buchanan wrote: > > > > There's been an interesting thread I've been following throughout this (my > > first) JavaOne of "polyglot" - pretty much: "Java the language is way, > > waaay far from perfect: use whatever JVM language best suits the job/domain > > at hand." Obviously, there's been that "on the JVM" bent, but the message > > dynamic language guys have been selling is: "if you need middleware which > > already exists in a Java EE app server and there's a wrapper for <favourite > > dynamic language>, just *use* the <favourite dynamic language> wrapper." > > Other talks have gone further and pretty much said: "look: when you need to > > scale, just use whatever's best at the task at hand, doesn't matter what > > it's written in/runs on," at which many mental high-fives were given by > > myself and a a certain amount of confuzzled questions were asked. > > > > The JRuby guys are way ahead on this front: Charles Nutter has had a bunch > > of great talks here, and from listening to the Oracle & JVM guys it sounds > > like he's been a key driver as an initial user of the JVM-specific details > > (invokeDynamic). He and Tom Enebo (another JRuby guy) had a packed talk > > where they did a great job of sellling dynamic languages in general and for > > build/testing tools in particular as an entry point. Given that Oracle have > > people working on a more efficient JavaScript implementation than what's > > standard in Java-land, and that they're working on a Node API > > implementation (a talk today about implementation details such as > > https://github.com/szegedi/dynalink was a programmer geeking-out-fest, as > > someone who's been stuck in webapps-land for too long), I guess this just > > is a bit of a heads-up. > > > > (I should point out, FWIW, that I use (server-side) JavaScript and Python > > almost exclusively in my free time and Java/JVM/enterprisey stuff almost > > exclusively at work, so I'm currently a bit stoked (and drunk on free > > alcolhol, and overwhelmed by SF partially due to the former) about having > > attended days of talks which merge stuff I'm interested in personally and > > stuff I *have* to be interested in professionally) > > > > Thanks, > > Jonny. > > > > On 4 October 2012 19:05, Ben Noordhuis <[email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Jonathan Buchanan > > <[email protected] (mailto:[email protected])> wrote: > >> I'm at JavaOne, for my sins, and I've been attending all the sessions > >> related to Oracle's new JavaScript implementation in Java, called Nashorn. > >> > >> What initially caught my eye was that they're also porting the Node.js > >> APIs, > >> module system etc. in a project called Node.jar. Nashorn itself is going to > >> be open-source, but it sounds like it's hard to get a hold of Node.jar even > >> if you work for Oracle, and there are no plans to open-source Node.jar, but > >> it could be another deployment option in the future and another way to get > >> at multi-threading. > >> > >> These are what I can decipher from my scribbled notes: > >> > >> https://insin-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/JavaOne2012/meet_nashorn_bof.html > > > >> https://insin-notes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/JavaOne2012/nashorn_node_jpa_persistence_bof.html > > > >> > >> They at pains to point out they hadn't looked at any other implementations > >> to keep the JavaScript engine "pure", but it sounds like the Node port is > >> trying to reuse as much of the Node JS libs as possible and Node's > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > (mailto:[email protected]) > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > (mailto:nodejs%[email protected]) > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > > -- > Arunoda Susiripala > > @arunoda (http://twitter.com/arunoda) > https://github.com/arunoda > http://www.linkedin.com/in/arunoda > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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