I wrote the article and I specifically covered why that happened. Novell bought SUSE. Then Novell bought Ximian, the GNOME company that wrote Nautilus ("Files"

I wrote the article and I specifically covered why that happened. Novell bought SUSE. Then Novell bought Ximian, the GNOME company that wrote Nautilus ("Files") and Evolution. The Novell forcibly merged SUSE and Ximian. https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/12755/ https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/12755/