JavaScript 2015?

[Brendan Eich]

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. :-/
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> 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.
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> Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
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