Full disclosure - I work for the Eclipse Foundation. We are a vendor-neutral, membership-led organization with global reach. The primary motivations for this move were that ⅔’s of our members and ⅔’s of our committers were based in Europe, and we saw an opportunity to become even more relevant to our stakeholders. We think that being based in Europe will be an interesting differentiator, but we are in this to help foster worldwide collaboration, not get bogged down in politics.

> we are in this to help foster worldwide collaboration, not get bogged down in politics.

That was my point. Belgium, a famously neutral country, allows you to do that.

Full disclosure, I work for the Eclipse Foundation. Assuming you are referring to the Eclipse Java IDE, the installed base of active users is in the millions.