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what is an American distro?
I mean does the kernel or DE have a nationality if they're Free Software? Anyone is supposed to be able to reuse them, no? Exactly like China has already building its own OS based on GNU-Linux
That's why, as a mere user myself, I consider the GNU-GPL license so essential (so much more than the code being 'Open Source') as GPL makes it so that no one can limit what anyone else wants to do with the code. And even if the USA one day stopped being our best friends, they would have no legal claim to prevent us (or China, or anyone else) from building on top of their code or to fork it. Freedom, is great.
Red Hat?
Founded in America, now owned by Big Blue.
Makes everything harder for other distros by adopting an 'our way or the highway' approach that is a big part of the reason for the problems with GNOME too.
While I agree with the general sentiment of your post, I think a good faith argument can be made that basing such a distro on the SUSE ecosystem would make more sense.
On that I could not tell much: I'm really not a dev and I use my Linux like I used to use my Mac. But I have little doubt there are a few more interesting alternatives to Fedora.
But if the GPL is a thing this should not matter that much. That's also why I worry to see a big distro like Ubuntu considering replacing GPL core tools with non GPL ones. Maybe I'm just paranoid but I see that as a long-term way to get rid of the GPL and took control of Linux to make it their product, not ours anymore.
I personally don't really care for the SUSE ecosystem. K3s and Rancher are nice but I don't like SUSE as a base system. It is heavy weight and Yast feels more like a burden. I'm also not quite sure about how secure everything is although it is probably fine. SUSE also has the downside of being way less popular that Debian, Ubuntu and RHEL like systems. Fedora has the benefit of working with tools built for RHEL. Ansible is a first class citizen in that regard. It also should work with software for Rocky Linux and any other RHEL like system.