Node.js and Deno creator Ryan Dahl has written an open letter to Oracle, asking the company to make the JavaScript trademark publicly available.

Dahl refers to the original 1995 Netscape Communications press release announcing JavaScript. Regardless of the trademark, the name of the language has long confused people who think it's a variant of Java.

At the time, Netscape claimed that JavaScript was "complementary and integrated with Java" because the idea was that it could interact with Java applets on Web pages. However, this integration was superficial, and JavaScript has little in common with the Java language, except that both are curly bracketed languages.+