As far as I’m concerned, open-source has no nationality, even for a public-sector project. Yes, Red Hat is American. They also don’t own Fedora.

From the very start, we’ve been built on the contributions of people from every corner of the globe, why should we care about petty geographical squabbles like this?

Killing Flash was worth it, but couldn’t we have avoided its reign of tyranny if we’d just stuck with Java applets in the first place…?

Okay, I’m not a fan of this either but let’s not get too worried about this. Everyone’s known Ubuntu is a joke for a long time and they don’t really have much influence on even several of their downstreams, let alone the rest of the ecosystem.