{"id":7649,"date":"2025-10-17T05:02:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/the-evolution-of-software-licensing-trolls-are-customers-losing-control-171945-aspx\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T05:02:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:02:27","slug":"the-evolution-of-software-licensing-trolls-are-customers-losing-control-171945-aspx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/the-evolution-of-software-licensing-trolls-are-customers-losing-control-171945-aspx\/","title":{"rendered":"The Evolution of Software Licensing Trolls: Are Customers Losing Control?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    The Evolution of Software Licensing Trolls: Are Customers Losing Control?<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>A &#8220;software licensing troll&#8221; is a term coined by Michael Corey and Dean Bolton, cofounder and chief architect of LicenseFortress, in collaboration with Art Beeman and Joel Muchmore of Beeman and Muchmore. We recognized it as the natural evolution of the &#8220;patent troll&#8221;?a concept that emerged in the 1990s.<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dbta.com\/BigDataQuarterly\/Articles\/The-Evolution-of-Software-Licensing-Trolls-Are-Customers-Losing-Control-171945.aspx\">Go to dbta<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Evolution of Software Licensing Trolls: Are Customers Losing Control? A &#8220;software licensing troll&#8221; is a term coined by Michael Corey and Dean Bolton, cofounder and chief architect of LicenseFortress, in collaboration with Art Beeman and Joel Muchmore of Beeman and Muchmore. We recognized it as the natural evolution of the &#8220;patent troll&#8221;?a concept that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dbta","tag-dbta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}