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Seems counter-productive to copyright the term or want some exclusivity to it. If you want the term to be known and understood, let others denote their service in the same way.

Did anyone copyright the term shareware?

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I don't think he was actually serious about copyrighting the term. I believe he was just using it as a figure of speech.

Maybe he's provoking people to spite him by using it.

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