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Computer Associates Settles with Utah Firm in Software License Dispute.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003

By Bob Mims, The Salt Lake Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 13--Computer Associates International, perhaps seeking to focus more on a federal probe into its practices, on Tuesday announced a $40 million settlement with Lindon-based Center 7 and Canopy Group, its majority owner.

The settlement, expected to soon win U.S. District Court approval, would end a software-licensing dispute that prompted Center 7 and Canopy, a technology investment firm, to sue the world's fifth-largest software company in April 2001.

A nondisclosure agreement is part of the settlement, and prevented either party from addressing whether the deal amounted to an admission of guilt by Computer Associates (CA) -- or even whether Canopy saw the...

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