> they are government contractors It's not just a kind of subculture though, there are practical reasons: "Defense" products have often meant large batches of

> they are government contractors It's not just a kind of subculture though, there are practical reasons: "Defense" products have often meant large batches of durable complicated equipment (e.g. tanks, planes) where your clients plan to have them ready for service for the next X decades and really do require their own copies of good repair-manuals that a non-employee can use, as well as some confidence that the supply-chain is both secure now and can also continue to exist for those X decades. Even if all you're doing is providing the software for the Big Mech Suit, you can't dodge those requirements since it's part of the same set of product-needs. This is a stark contrast to, say, an "Uber for Cats on the Blockchain with AI" SaaS site the lives on ad-revenue and no end-user support.