JS would be hard to trademark now because there’s so many other services using JS as part of their trademark. There’s also already quite a few companies who’ve already registered JS as a trademark.

You also couldn’t call it Jscript because Microsoft owns the trademark there.

EMCAScript is the most practical from a legal standpoint, but that name sucks badly.

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moralestapia 5 days ago | parent [-]

Yeah, but that's what is needed.

An un-trademark-eable term.

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hnlmorg 5 days ago | parent [-]

What you need is the opposite: a trademarked name but one where a community-managed nonprofit foundation owns.

That’s how other languages (eg Perl and Python) manage their assets. And the ecosystem is better for it.

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moralestapia 4 days ago | parent [-]

>Perl

>Python

>And the ecosystem is better for it.

AHAHAHAHAHH

	▲	hnlmorg 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I take it form your reply that you either misunderstood my comment or you think the constant threat of litigation from Oracle is a good thing. Either way, you come off as incredibly naïve.