For those interested in reading an amusing and well written account about the SCO case, here it is (thanks Patrice!)
I.B.M. looks like the pretty good guy in all of this but indeed they of course do things that are typical of a corporate giant who makes big bucks off of patents. But really they should at least stick to technology patents and not the likes of How to Pay an Open Source Developer. Lame. Yeah they should just stick to what they do best software patents