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If you read the NYT article, Yahoo merely warned Facebook about potential patent violations. There is no back-stabbing, this is business as usual. I wish Techcrunch would quit with the drama already.
This is very sad. I worked at Yahoo until a few weeks ago; I have great respect for what Yahoo can build, the company and it's people. This is such a sad turn of events. It's also very weird given how much Yahoo has been talking up the success of the partnership with Facebook around the open graph.
When a technology company starts suing on patents, you know it's stopped doing something else: innovating and competing. It's really sad to see Yahoo! becoming the SCO of social networking.
Except when it's apple. Or microsoft. or anytime there is big profit to be done, or negociations breaks on contending points. it's just business as usual.
If true, one interesting point in the article is that yahoo has 2,661 pending patents in the pipe. Regardless of if these are "good" patents or not, it sounds like a non neglictable number for a company that doesn't get the spotlight so much these days.