It seems like you're being unnecessarily pedantic.

So, I'll Well, Actually you: They're not 'buying' anything so it doesn't matter what the source is. It isn't the "OnlyGetFreeStuffFromEU" community after all.

You've completely ignored what I said. Comparing linux to Microsofts European operations is bizarre given that Microsoft produce a paid for product which uses telemetry out the wazoo to get even more money from the end user and which is closed source compared to a completely open source peer reviewed kernel development proceedure which is free to be used and tweaked however a entity likes.

Its irrelevant where the not for profit foundation happens to be based, and if they do go off the rails the entire thing could be forked quite easily.

Even the Russians and North Koreans as paranoid as those entities are trust linux running on sensitive machines, and as seen with Slesvig-Holsten so do German provisional governments.

Also the UK is (for now) still broadly included in the buy european campaigns alongside Norway, Switzerland, Ukraine etc. Although if you'd really wanted to target Canonical for not being European you should've pointed to it being based on Debian.