a future date, providing it pays legal fees to DaimlerChrysler. Other issues and conflicts SCO announces that it will not sue its own customers On June 23, 2003, SCO sent out a letter announcing that it would not be suing its own Linux customers. In the letter, it states: SCO and SGI In August 2003, SCO presented two examples of what they claimed was illegal copying of copyrighted code from UNIX to Linux. One of the examples (Berkeley Packet Filter) was not related to original UNIX code at all. The other example did, however, seem to originate from the UNIX code and was apparently contributed by a UNIX vendor, Silicon Graphics. However, an analysis by the Linux community later revealed that: The code originated from an even older version of UNIX which at some point was published by Caldera, thus making any claim of copyright infringement shaky. The code did not do anything. It was in a part of the Linux kernel that was written in anticipation of a Silicon Graphics architecture that was never released. It had already been removed from the kernel two months earlier. The contested segment was small (80 lines) and trivial. SCO and BayStar Capital In October 2003, BayStar Capital and Royal Bank of Canada invested US$50 million in The SCO Group to support the legal cost of SCO's Linux campaign. Later it was shown that BayStar was referred to SCO by Microsoft, whose proprietary Windows operating system competes with Linux. In 2003, BayStar looked at SCO on the recommendation of Microsoft, according to Lawrence R. Goldfarb, managing partner of BayStar Capital: "It was evident that Microsoft had an agenda". On April 22, 2004, The New York Times reported that BayStar Capital, a private hedge fund which had arranged for $50M in funding for SCO in October 2003, was asking for its $20M back. The remainder of the $50M was from Royal Bank of Canada. SCO stated in their press release that they believed that BayStar did not have grounds for making this demand. On August 27, 2004, SCO and BayStar resolved their dispute. SCO and Canopy Group The Canopy Group is an investment group with shares in a trust of different companies. It is a group owned by the Noorda family, also founders of Novell. Until February 2005, Canopy held SCO shares, and the management of SCO held shares of Canopy. The two parties