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Presumably they think this is a defense that will hold up in court as plausible deniability if they are ever sued for defamation relating to this comment.

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You guys are weird. It was just a bit of wordplay :D

I didn't really have an issue with what you wrote. It made me realize there are several three-letter, starts-with-S, Unix companies.

No fun allowed here on HN

I hope you don't code the way you talk ;)

Seriously though, it's bad writing. Not a crime as bad as starting an off-topic subthread, but still...

Sun doesn't exist anymore though. Is getting sued even a possibility?

In the hypothetical scenario that this commenter is implying that Solaris contains (or contained) a load of IP which is non-clean-roomed Linux copyright (is that the implication??), then the current owners of Solaris would be the ones getting in trouble with - the FSF? That would be Oracle.

https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/

And it would be Oracle chasing the commenter for an NDA breach, I suppose.

Neither does SCO, so the point is moot :)

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