IMHO a summary a few paragraphs long of a decade of events in a complex industry must simplify matters.

Sure, there was overlap. Lots of overlap. You highlight one. Novell bought SUSE, but that was after Cambridge Technology Partners (IIRC) bought Novell, and after that, then Attachmate bought the result...

But you skip over that.

I think as a compressed timeline summary, mine was fair enough.

It is really important historical contact that KDE is the reason that both Mandrake and GNOME exist, and it's rarely mentioned now. Mandrake became Mandriva then died, but the distros live on and PC LinuxOS in particular shows how things should have gone if there was less Not-Invented-Here Syndrome.

I don't think "well, actually, this happened before that" is as important, TBH.

No?

> But you skip over that.

It's pretty common to reply to specific aspects of a comment. That's what the markdown quote notation is for (even if it doesn't render properly on this site).

> I think as a compressed timeline summary, mine was fair enough.

But it's not merely compressed, it's factually incorrect.

> I don't think "well, actually, this happened before that" is as important, TBH.

That tracks considering you write for a tabloid with a tumultuous relationship with accuracy.