Dont confuse one with the other.
Less coverage, yes but people who were pissed of then havent forgotten.
Xandros and Linspire were never a real choice anyways and not using SUSE has proven to be very easy.

You are pretty cavalier about ‘que sera, sera’ with number two.
The Novell deal resulted in GPLv3 so to say you are flippant is an understatement.
The only reason we were able to move on is people did something about it while others like Red Hat,etc said no to extortion deals.
A deal which creates a ‘clean’ version of Linux and another that supposedly isnt, IS NOT what I expect from the companies that participate in Linux. I have no problems with Linux distros fighting it out since all advancements will benefit us all but to insinuate the FUD that the 3 bastard distros did should NOT be forgotten.

“Dont do anything folks, it will all pass soon” is called whistling by the graveyard. Torvalds does a lot of it since he is above it all. Thank god the movement doesnt expect leadership from him outside his expertise in the kernel.