Editing Ray Noorda (section)

==Later career==
{{anchor|NFT}}Up to his death, Noorda owned the [[Canopy Group]], which he had founded in 1992 through the Noorda Family Trust (NFT Ventures, Inc.).<ref name="Rogers_2019"/><ref name="NFT_Ventures"/> One of its holdings, [[Caldera (company)|Caldera]], purchased the [[Unix]] assets in 2000 from the [[Santa Cruz Operation]], which had acquired them from Novell in 1995. In 1996, it also acquired the [[Digital Research]] assets from Novell and immediately brought a [[Caldera v. Microsoft|lawsuit]] against [[Microsoft]] that largely duplicated the claims that the [[Federal Trade Commission]] (FTC) and [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]] had pursued in the early 1990s.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} The lawsuit was ultimately settled in 2000 with a $280 million payment to Caldera.<ref name="Groklaw_2009_NovellWP"/><ref name="Microsoft_2009_Memorandum"/><ref name="Caldera_Microsoft_2000_Settlement"/><ref name="Gomes_2000_Settlement"/>

Noorda received [[Honorary degree|honorary doctorate]]s from the University of Utah in 1994 and Weber State University in 1995. As a consequence of age and associated health issues ([[Alzheimer's disease]] and [[heart disease]]), Noorda did not participate in the day-to-day management of Canopy's affairs after 1998.<ref name="Groklaw_2005"/><ref name="Gray"/>

Noorda was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1995.

Noorda had four sons and one daughter. His daughter committed [[suicide]] in 2005.<ref name="Suicide_2005"/> Noorda died on 9 October 2006 at his home in [[Orem, Utah|Orem]], Utah, at the age of 82.