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cardanome 7 hours ago

TS trademark is owned by Microsoft.

That would be a case of out of the frying pan into the fire. Not really better.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Call it ES2026 officially and let other people devalue MS' trademark as they refer to that (and later versions) as TS.

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bayindirh 7 hours ago | parent [-]

...and we'll have another API warfa^H^H^H^H lawsuit that we had for Java.

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lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Wasn't that a copyright issue? I thought the point of contention is that Google allegedly copied Oracle's API design when they re-wrote Java for Android.

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bayindirh 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Wouldn't Microsoft do the same thing when somebody copies the language and names it "TypedWebBrowserScriptbutFree"?

	▲	lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/LICENSE.tx... The license is Apache 2.0. With the trademark, they can tell everyone not to call their thing TypeScript but at this point, given the license, they can't tell them not to copy it and change it and distribute that new thing (assuming the new distributors do so under the correct conditions).

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walthamstow 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same as Go and Google then. Is the ownership of the trademark of the name/logo of a FOSS language really that big a deal?

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mdasen 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That's the entire issue here: JS is a FOSS language and they don't like that Oracle owns the trademark.

	▲	walthamstow 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oops. Outing myself as someone who didn't read TFA.