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

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).