But there is something here that the Linux development community should not miss: SCO has shown the extent of its contempt for you. Without IBM as fairy godmother, says SCO, you could never have achieved what you have achieved with Linux. That is an insult of the highest order - the worldwide free software development community has been slandered in a big way. Whatever happens with this case, we should not forget what this company thinks of us.
Point (2) alleges access to fancy equipment. The first four-processor Linux demonstration was put together by the company then known as VA Research. IBM has since provided some nice boxes to its developers (leading to fun things like 7.5 second kernel compiles). But one might well ask when it became a crime to give your developers access to high-end hardware.