{"id":3945,"date":"2024-09-22T13:17:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2024-09-22T13:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-09-22T18:17:05","slug":"oracle-its-time-to-free-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/oracle-its-time-to-free-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle, it\u2019s time to free JavaScript."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/javascript.tm\/\">An open letter<\/a> with a bunch of big names attached to it asking Oracle to give up the copyright on &#8220;JavaScript&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>It is therefore time to take active steps in order to bring the JavaScript trademark into the public domain, where it belongs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s kinda weird, and only for historical acquisition reasons that they have it all. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really doing Oracle any favors to hold on to it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We could all just start saying &#8220;ECMAScript&#8221; instead, since that&#8217;s what mean for the most part anyway, but that would be quite the lift. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An open letter with a bunch of big names attached to it asking Oracle to give up the copyright on &#8220;JavaScript&#8221;. It is therefore time to take active steps in order to bring the JavaScript trademark into the public domain, where it belongs. It&#8217;s kinda weird, and only for historical acquisition reasons that they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-javascript"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-22-at-11.16.28%E2%80%AFAM.png?fit=1404%2C1086&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}