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Their wikipedia page suggests they were profitable as of 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(compan
by goda90 6y ago
Their wikipedia page suggests they were profitable as of 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)
They provide support to lots of enterprises.
- bryanlarsen 6y agoThey get a cut every time you spin up a VM on AWS, I imagine that's what provides the bulk of their profits. Even though Ubuntu is open source, it's trademarked. If AWS didn't want to pay Canonical, they'd have to do one of two things: either provide Ubuntu unmodified or relabel it and call it something other than Ubuntu. Unmodified Ubuntu probably doesn't boot on AWS, so that's not an option. They tried avoiding payments to Red Hat with their "Amazon Linux" option, but customers far prefer the branded RHEL and Ubuntu images.
- syntheticcdo 6y agoAZ Linux is useful sometimes though, because it has all the AWS niceties installed by default, like the SSM session manager, or the ECS-optimized image.