[greggsy]

This is the wrong way to look at it from a business perspective. They don’t directly profit off licensing or support or anything like that, but they gain free advertising.

They gain absolutely nothing by handing over the name and brand - in fact they lose valuable brand recognition.

Obviously most people in the industry hate them with a passion (see this thread as evidence), but many see the association as evidence that they might at least have some expertise with that product set. I certainly don’t agree with their position, but it makes sense commercially.

[madeofpalk]

Brand recognition for what?

No one thinks of Oracle when they see JavaScript.

[danparsonson]

In fact for myself, today was the first day I knew Oracle have anything whatsoever to do with JavaScript.

[fourthark]

Oracle purchased Sun, which purchased Netscape. I had to look it up.

Edit: more complete history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44408760

[msinclair]

How are they going to lose brand recognition, when a majority of people do not associate JavaScript with Oracle? The only language I associate with Oracle is Java.