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Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet by bryanlarsen on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:16AM (#18450968)
Canonical very definitely gets paid every time someone spins up an Ubuntu VM on AWS or any other cloud provider. Not much, perhaps, but there are a lot of Ubuntu VM's spun up.

AWS doesn't necessarily have to pay Canonical for Ubuntu VM's, but if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to use the trademark "Ubuntu".

OVH wasn't paying Canonical, got sued because of it, and had to settle.

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Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet by mmcclellan on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:56AM (#18451336)
In the OVH case, a modified kernel was being shipped without (apparently) following the guidelines. I've seen an AWS suffix on kernel upgrades and they may or may not have an agreement to pay, but I'm thinking _very definitely_ is stated too strongly.
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Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet by vrutkovs on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:24AM (#18451042)
Ah, interesting. So they basically sell the right to use their trademark?
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Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet by bryanlarsen on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @11:25AM (#18451052)
They also supply support and custom images.
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Re:Mark Shuttleworth is not selling Canonical or Ubuntu – yet by aritmo on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @01:58PM (#18452697)
No, see the simbling reply.
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