Now pay attention, because this is going to get complicated. Ray Noorda, former head of Novell and at one time owner of WordPerfect, helped to fund the creation of Caldera, a company broken into two distinct entities. Caldera Inc. was a kind of holding company and owned the intellectual property rights to DR-DOS from Digital Research. Caldera used those rights to successfully sue Microsoft for anti-trust violations, winning a settlement worth at least $100 million. Not bad for a $400,000 initial investment.
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