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>at a large 3-letter-starting-with-S Unix company (no, not the graphics guys, nor the suing-Linux-for-Microsoft guys) Is it Sun? Why use more than 20 words to

by meruru 7y ago

>at a large 3-letter-starting-with-S Unix company (no, not the graphics guys, nor the suing-Linux-for-Microsoft guys) Is it Sun? Why use more than 20 words to (probably) mean "for Sun"?

ghostpepper 7y ago
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.
- meruru 7y ago
  Sun doesn't exist anymore though. Is getting sued even a possibility?
  - bencollier49 7y ago
    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/ https://www.oracle.com/solaris/solaris11/ And it would be Oracle chasing the commenter for an NDA breach, I suppose.
  - chungy 7y ago
    Neither does SCO, so the point is moot :)
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- vmlinuz 7y ago
  You guys are weird. It was just a bit of wordplay :D
  - meruru 7y ago
    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...
  - some_random 7y ago
    No fun allowed here on HN
  - ghostpepper 7y ago
    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.
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