<P> Douglas Crockford first specified and popularized the JSON format . The acronym originated at State Software ( originally named Veil Networks , Inc . ) , a company co-founded by Crockford , Randy Farmer ( left to work at 3DO ) , Greg Macdonald , Chip Morningstar , Robert F. Napiltonia and Dominik Zynis in March 2001 . State Software was funded by Tesla Ventures with $1.8 Million in October 2011 , and tried to trademark the word `` State '' . The co-founders agreed to build a system that used standard browser capabilities and provided an abstraction layer for Web developers to create stateful Web applications that had a persistent duplex connection to a Web server by holding two HTTP connections open and recycling them before standard browser time - outs if no further data were exchanged . The co-founders had a round - table discussion and voted whether to call the data format JSML or JSON , as well as under what license type to make it available . Crockford , being inspired by the words of then President Bush , should also be credited with coming up with the `` evil - doers '' JSON license ( `` The Software shall be used for Good , not Evil . '' ) in order to open - source the JSON libraries , but force ( troll ) corporate lawyers , or those who are overly pedantic , to seek to pay for a license from State . Morningstar developed the idea for the State Application Framework at State Software . On the other hand , this clause led to license compatibility problems of the JSON license with other open - source licenses . </P>
<P> Douglas Crockford first specified and popularized the JSON format . The acronym originated at State Software ( originally named Veil Networks , Inc . ) , a company co-founded by Crockford , Randy Farmer ( left to work at 3DO ) , Greg Macdonald , Chip Morningstar , Robert F. Napiltonia and Dominik Zynis in March 2001 . State Software was funded by Tesla Ventures with $1.8 Million in October 2011 , and tried to trademark the word `` State '' . The co-founders agreed to build a system that used standard browser capabilities and provided an abstraction layer for Web developers to create stateful Web applications that had a persistent duplex connection to a Web server by holding two HTTP connections open and recycling them before standard browser time - outs if no further data were exchanged . The co-founders had a round - table discussion and voted whether to call the data format JSML or JSON , as well as under what license type to make it available . Crockford , being inspired by the words of then President Bush , should also be credited with coming up with the `` evil - doers '' JSON license ( `` The Software shall be used for Good , not Evil . '' ) in order to open - source the JSON libraries , but force ( troll ) corporate lawyers , or those who are overly pedantic , to seek to pay for a license from State . Morningstar developed the idea for the State Application Framework at State Software . On the other hand , this clause led to license compatibility problems of the JSON license with other open - source licenses . </P>
who is credited with getting the json movement started
who is credited with getting the json movement started
Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford