The father of JavaScript joins forces with nearly 10000 developers to collectively attack Oracle: give JavaScript a way out!

Oracle controls the JavaScript trademark because it acquired Sun Microsystems in 2009, which had applied for the trademark as early as 1995 to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. This trademark was approved in 2000.

Although this database giant has not used the name JavaScript on its commercial products, it owns the trademark rights for this name. For this reason, organizations related to JavaScript, such as JSConf, which specializes in discussing JavaScript, dare not mention JavaScript again to avoid trouble. Although many developers around the world enjoy using JavaScript, conferences related to it cannot directly mention the name JavaScript. Upon careful consideration, this is quite a sad thing.

In a newly released open letter, Ryan Dahl, creator of Node.js; Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript; Michal Ficarra, editor of JavaScript specifications; Rich Harris, creator of Svelte framework; Isaac Schleuter, creator of npm; Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO of Socket; James Snell, member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee; Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski, hosts of Syntax FM; and over 9000 other signatories at the time of submission urge Oracle to abandon its unused and therefore unnecessary JavaScript trademark.

As a long-term member of the JavaScript community, I believe it’s time for Oracle to release the JavaScript trademark, “said one of the…