Well, the models were in so far compatible as that JavaScript could access them ...

devjab · 2025-06-29T09:52:57 1751190777

> Which is why they picked the name ...

Is that really true though? As I understood it JavaScript was mainly adopted because Java was popular at the time. JavaScript originally shipped as LiveScript, and they changed it to JavaScript later. Here is a nice quote on it from Brendan Eich:

“The name JavaScript was chosen when Java was hot, and we were doing LiveConnect to hook up JS to Java applets.”

Here is one from David Flanagan:

“JavaScript was originally developed under the name Mocha… It was renamed JavaScript in a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun Microsystems.”

BrendanEich · 2025-07-01T06:57:38 1751353058

The name change to JavaScript, via a trademark license from Sun to Netscape, was on Dec. 4, 1995 -- still within the Netscape 2.0 beta period. There was no stable release of Netscape launched with LiveScript but not JavaScript support.

devjab · 2025-07-01T18:05:07 1751393107

Cool, thanks for the correction.

rvnx · 2025-06-29T10:10:29 1751191829

We can also punish people who are historically connected to this trademark and supporting Oracle. Like in this case, Mozilla and Brave.

If they have less users due to Oracle, they will put pressure on Oracle to release the trademark.

BrendanEich · 2025-07-01T06:55:08 1751352908

Brave doesn't support Oracle, what were you thinking?

I'm second signatory to https://javascript.tm.

rvnx · 2025-07-01T08:28:37 1751358517

I am saying because, according to this interview, the name JavaScript was trademarked with the support of Brendan Eich as part of "Sun Microsystems":

https://topenddevs.com/podcasts/javascript-jabber/episodes/1...

"I liked the fact that Joy signed the trademark agreement"

To clarify: it was true at some point because of personal reasons, and is not anymore the case, right ?