My 1st Linux distro that I used regularly was SUSE Linux. I would play with Debian on and off, but SUSE, I thought, was where the future was at.
I also remember the 1st time SUSE became a paid distro and the unimaginable backlash they received from within the Linux ecosystem. I suppose it was expected. You had a complete ecosystem of users and developers who believed in free and open source software. The idea of a business uses this as a paid product did not sit well with many.
But I also found it a bit of a double standard, that the next one to do so, Red Hat, oddly was embraced with open arms, as if what they were doing was not the same thing as SUSE (which they were).
I guess being the 1st to do this meant you were always going to be looked down upon.
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