What judges like even less than being blasted is people who try their case in the press. Do you see IBM saying anything? Do you see tons of press releases and such out of them? No. You see a new multi-million dollar add campaign about linux and it's future as if absolutely nothing is wrong. This is the sign of a supremely confident defendant. They (at the direction of their large, highly competent, skilled, and experienced legal department) are saving their statements for the court case. The big guy vs. little guy junk may hold in small claims or cases of a company against an individual, but this is one publicly traded corporation against another. No judge is going to care one way or the other about either one. So, while the courts may be an "artificial world", it isn't going to help SCO because it still has rules and those, at least in this case, look like they favor the bigger of the two nameless faceless companies, neither of which will engender any feeling of sympathy in anyone but for a few biased writers.