The most confusing part is how a post on HN with record breaking up votes suddenly falls off the front page just as Groupon issues their response. Is there biased moderation occurring? I reached out to YC for clarification and help. Hopefully I'm wrong and just jumping to conclusions without knowing all the facts. :)

This post makes it even more clear that the Groupon people behind this have a poorly developed understanding of ethics and scruples.

"Trying to come to a resolution" looks like code for "we've been threatening Gnome with costly legal expenses."

I e-mailed Groupon directly about it, they sent me the same response, word-for-word. It's clearly a canned text their PR firm gave them to paste.