[hajile]

Everything was fine because Sun owned the Javascript trademark.

Oracle now owns that trademark today

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=75026640&caseType=SERIAL_...

For what it's worth, Microsoft lost a lawsuit over their Java clone called J. Their Javascript clone was called JScript.

They made .net and C# instead and probably would have tried to make a new web language except that there was no room. One could argue that that VB.net was that language to some degree.

[ojosilva]

In fact Microsoft had their own browser scripting language, called VBScript. It was released in 1996 and only ran (runs) on Internet Explorer browsers (client-side) and Windows as an interpreter (Wscript.exe).

I ended-up using it extensively for a period of time from 1998 to 2002 to automate webpages that only ran in the intranet. I also used Wscript to run certain OLE or ODBC based automation (ie. grab data from Excel and write to a file) that was clunky to write in Perl.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript

[DonHopkins]

Now look at what's become of Sun's trademarked logo:

Zuckerberg’s not-so-subtle message to Facebook employees: Don’t end up like Sun Microsystems

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has put a pretty hefty reminder for Facebook employees to keep striving for relevancy right outside the front door. An aging Sun Microsystems sign, on the back side of the Facebook sign, is a well-placed message to them.

https://www.geekwire.com/2014/zuckerbergs-not-subtle-message...