SUSE S.A. ownership does seem to be entirely European, if you're worried about Safe Harbor type issues.
https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/18/suse-taken-private-major...
SUSE S.A. ownership does seem to be entirely European, if you're worried about Safe Harbor type issues.
https://siliconangle.com/2023/08/18/suse-taken-private-major...
They were a German company before being bought by Novell in 2004. I think the popularity dropped after the takeover in Europe.
Now that they are completely disentangled again, let's hope they restore the popularity. It is a good distribution.
> I think the popularity dropped after the takeover in Europe
It wasn't the takeover, it was splitting SUSE linux into a paid stable/supported distro and a testing/community distro, like Red Hat had just done with RHEL/Fedora. Unlike Red Hat, SUSE didn't have the critical mass to force the community to be guinea pigs for paid customers, and it withered as folk switched to other distros, including the hot new entrant: ubuntu.