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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.






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

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

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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 ?

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