Editing Canopy Group (section)

===Involvement with The SCO Group===
[[Image:SCO Group offices in Linden Utah December 2002.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.125|The Canopy Group was both an investor in, and a building provider for, The SCO Group, here seen in the Canopy II building in 2002]]

One of the Canopy Group's tenants, and a company they had 43 percent ownership of, was [[The SCO Group]].<ref name="fortune-2003"/>  This was the renamed form of [[Caldera International]] with a new management team and approach.<ref name="NW_FR_2001"/><ref name="NYT_Lineo_2003"/>  By 2003, the SCO Group was receiving large amounts of attention due to the ''[[SCO v. IBM]]'' lawsuit and the surrounding [[SCO–Linux controversies]],<ref name="DN_FR_2005_2"/> in which it said that Linux had infringed upon the [[intellectual property rights]] of the [[Unix operating system]] that the SCO Group owned via its predecessor company [[The Santa Cruz Operation]].<ref name="NYT_Lineo_2003"/><ref name="Mims_2005"/>   Much of industry opinion was against the SCO Group's legal actions.<ref name="R_settlement_2005"/>  In particular reaction from the [[free and open source software community]] was intense and the SCO Group soon became, as ''[[Businessweek]]'' headlined, "The Most Hated Company In Tech".<ref name="bw-hated"/>  

As majority owner in the SCO Group with two seats on SCO's board, the Canopy Group received substantial criticism as well.<ref name="CW_shell_2003"/><ref name="NYT_Lineo_2003"/><ref name="Mims_2005"/>  For instance, in July 2003, ''[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]'' magazine emphasized the role that the Canopy Group was playing and called Yarro the "mastermind" behind the ''SCO v. IBM'' action.<ref name="fortune-2003"/>  Columnist Frank Hayes of ''[[Computerworld]]'' examined how the SCO Group was acquiring Vultus Inc., another company controlled by Canopy, and concluded that Canopy was playing  "a shell game ... to move its companies around" in order to exploit and cash in on the SCO Group's rising stock price.<ref name="CW_shell_2003"/>  And in October 2013, a ''[[New York Times]]'' story said that Canopy "has played an important role ... in shaping SCO's legal strategy" and quoted Laura Didio, analyst for the [[Yankee Group]], as saying "All roads lead to Canopy. They've been pretty clever in the way they've played this."<ref name="NYT_Lineo_2003"/>  

Canopy Group companies had been involved in two earlier legal actions, the winning ''[[Caldera v. Microsoft]]'' suit, which resulted in a favorable settlement in the neighborhood of $250 million,<ref name="fortune-2003"/> as well as a successful action on behalf of its [[Center 7]] company against [[Computer Associates]].<ref name="NYT_Lineo_2003"/>  Yarro said, "Intellectual property is everything. It's like location in real estate."<ref name="fortune-2003"/>  But he reported that back in his home area in Utah, "I have had friends, good friends, tell me they can't believe what we're doing."<ref name="bw-hated"/>  So to criticism regarding its role with the SCO Group, Yarro said, "I know I've been painted in a rough light. I hope that our companies are our legacy and not our lawsuits."<ref name="NYT_Lineo_2003"/>