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Foojay is the place to be for the Friends Of OpenJDK. But what is the history behind this name?

“Foo”, as we know, is a placeholder in demo apps. This site and community is, likewise, a placeholder for your content, of all kinds. In particular, it is “Foo” for “J”, i.e., “Java”. The name should really be “FooJ” but then it would be weird to pronounce. “Jay” is the right way to pronounce the J in “FooJ”, which at the same time is the name of a bird, and gave us a nice base for a logo, which was created by Gerrit Grunwald.

Oracle owns the trademark on Java and OpenJDK, and it's not allowed to use those names freely ofr initiatives like Foojay. So that's how “Foojay” became the name for the place for Friends of OpenJDK.

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