1. I haven't been this pissed since key escrow!

2. Everyone (Sun and Microsoft in particular) who's putting money into SCO via licenses or whatever should know that they're creating another nuissance-IP monster like Rambus. Rambus probably wouldn't be an issue if Intel hadn't pumped money into them way back when.

3. I expect that if SCO tries to sue Linux end-users for copyright infringement, a judge is not going to take kindly to this whole code NDA bullshit. Their claim seems a lot weaker to me if they refuse to give the "infringers" an opportunity to remove their code. The supposition that all of Linux is now derrivative is just ridiculous.

4. I hear they're now getting ready to send invoices to 1500 big corporations running Linux. Corporations receiving these invoices, see #2 above. Even better: could this constitute mail fraud?

5. SCO gambled that IBM would give them some money to shut up and go away. (this group of investors has pulled the same stunt before with Microsoft and Adobe, I think) ... IBM called their bluff. If SCO were to shut up and go away now, they would be admitting that this was all a scam.

6. I guess its somewhat surprising that this kind of issue hasn't come up with Linux before. For all I know, it probably has ... but SCO isn't trying to "protect its intellectual property," its trying to extort billions of dollars from every IT shop running Linux. And that's probably the big difference.

7. Bonus points for any US attourney who figures out how to prosecute SCO under either the mail fraud statue or RICO :P