] The Utah Court of Appeals has backed Novell's
] breach-of-contract victory over the Canopy Group, but in
] so doing unveiled a once-secret pact under which Novell
] sought to sue Microsoft by proxy.
]
] That 1996 antitrust lawsuit by Canopy and its
] subsidiary Caldera (now SCO Group) brought a reported
] $250 million settlement from Microsoft in 2000. The
] litigation, the three-judge appellate panel found, came
] as an oral quid-pro-quo for the sale of source code for
] DR DOS, a computer operating system targeted by
] Microsoft's alleged anti-competitive practices in the
] early 1990s.