and Microsoft heavily invested into Novell, who then stopped any SUSE Linux Desktop efforts, the Gnome team was US based and ummm left the company (and started

and Microsoft heavily invested into Novell, who then stopped any SUSE Linux Desktop efforts, the Gnome team was US based and ummm left the company (and started Xamarin), the KDE folks were reassigned other tasks, and the SAMBA team essentially also left Novell. purely coincidental, for sure. most interestingly after Satya Nadella took over from Lord Balmer. they started investing into FOSS and Linux, they absorbed github, Xamarin (FOSS .Net), created WSL/WSL2 which now pretty much works, because for heaven's sake, the munny is in managing the cloud and in providing the workplace desktop productivity suite, not the base OS or infrastructure software... anyhow. Novell, Balmer and Microsoft was quite a ride.