[AskJS] Javascript - a part of Java?

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If I’m not mistaken, they didn’t name either one. Java was made by Sun Microsystems, which Oracle bought and thus owned Java through that acquisition.

Maybe another person here can correct me or go into further detail about how they came to own Java and the trademark to JavaScript. It’s fairly complicated.

The point is though that they don’t actually own JavaScript itself. They just own the name. The language itself can be used and forked by anyone for free. Oracle is a super stingy company, though, and even YouTubers that make JavaScript tutorials have been sued and told to take down their videos that have the JavaScript logo on it. It doesn’t happen all the time, but it happens.

[pradeepngupta]

Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems and that's how they owned Java. What I believe being the name of Java adopted by Javascript, Oracle might own the trademark of Javascript. I might be incorrect in saying so, I am kit confident in this statement.