>> [...all...] Sounds familiar? It's because developing and earning money
>> on support only will always lead to such pathologies. [...]

Full ACK

Internet and downloading complete distros (for free) kills the Linux FOSS
ecosystem now, like downloading mp3 music did kill the music ecosystem.
Suse (and probably RH) had a fine working business model as long as they sold
their CDs/DVDs incl booklet. Eventually that failed and OpenSuse got
implemented (or Fedora).
On a sidenote: SLE 12 is also systemd now - of course.

/j