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List:       kde-kimageshop
Subject:    Re: KImageShop development
From:       "Bart Szyszka" <bart () gigabee ! com>
Date:       2000-08-23 21:20:19
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> Are you refering to Crayola?  As far as I can tell, 'crayon' is a term
> that's been around for a long, long time.  Webster's at least traces its
> etymology back to the Latin 'creta', circa 1644:
> Crayola claiming to have an exclusive right to 'crayon' based names would
> seem akin to Burger King claiming an exclusive right to 'burger' based
> names.
Exactly.

> Which is another point -- crayon.net and crayon.com are both registered to
> very non-Crayola entities, apparently without incident.
crayon.org doesn't appear to be owned by Crayola either.

- Bart

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