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by leereeves 55 days ago
I can't find much info about that (especially with their website down). Is Canonical's work with the DOD more like Raytheon or Pizza Hut?

Raytheon: providing products specifically for the DOD

Pizza Hut: selling their usual product to the DOD
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culi 55 days ago
Pizza Hut does not have a permanent DoD team. Canonical has actual contracts. You'll have to wait till their site is back up to read about it

https://canonical.com/blog/meet-the-canonical-federal-and-do...

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leereeves 55 days ago
Pizza Hut has plenty of locations on military bases, each with a team dedicated to selling their product to the military.
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culi 55 days ago
I see your point. To answer your original question, yes Canonical's military relationship is fundamentally different from Pizza Hut. More comparable to something like Palantir that sells SaaS or IaaS
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leereeves 55 days ago
So more like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Salesforce, and most big tech companies than either Pizza Hut or Raytheon? Perhaps most like Red Hat (who also sell to the DoD)?

I think it would be unusual to call them all military contractors (as you called Canonical in another comment).

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culi 52 days ago
Microsoft is the largest contractor of the Department of Defense.

I guess many laypeople have not kept up but to any community organizer or people involved in activism, these companies are certainly thought of as military contractors. An accurate assessment imo.

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irishcoffee 54 days ago
Ubuntu happily sells support contracts to whoever wants to buy them, yes. You can buy the same product the DoD does, it is not special. There is no "secret ubuntu distro for the DoD" by any stretch of the imagination.

The only thing the DoD cares about when it comes to an OS is that it is STIG'd and supported. RedHat and Canonical make a lot of money via support contracts for DoD programs.

Canonical == RedHat == Microsoft for the point you're trying to make, and that point is incorrect.

I hate ubuntu, in no way am I defending Canonical. If Iran thinks DDoSing Canonical will further a cause of their, it would be a second order effect, not just "because Canonical."

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