VMware is suing the US arm of commercial big AG Siemens. The Broadcom firm claims that Siemens outed itself by revealing to VMware that it downloaded and distributed a number of copies of VMware merchandise with out shopping for a license.
VMware filed the lawsuit (PDF) on March 21 within the US District Court docket for the District of Delaware, as noticed by The Register.
Within the criticism, VMware says that it has had a Grasp Software program License and Service Settlement with Siemens since November 28, 2012. The virtualization firm claims that in September, Siemens despatched VMware a purchase order order for upkeep and help providers. Siemens was reportedly seeking to train a beforehand agreed-upon possibility for a one-year renewal of help providers. Nevertheless, the checklist of VMware know-how that Siemens was searching for help for “included a lot of merchandise for which [VMware] had no report of Siemens AG buying a license,” the criticism says.
The lawsuit additionally reads: “Within the context of trying to train the choice… to buy a one-year renewal of Assist Companies for sure eligible licensed merchandise for the yr following the expiration of the ELA in September 2024, Siemens AG revealed that it had downloaded, copied, distributed, and deployed hundreds of copies of VMware merchandise for which it had by no means bought a license.”