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A good example of an illegal lottery would be the Bolita [0] popular in SW Florida. It was all tied up with organized crime. This led to violence when Italian organized crime attempted to wrest control from the Latinos who first implemented it.
[0] https://www.tampabay.com/life-culture/history/2021/09/28/bol...
When JEDI was first proposed, AWS had already been the vast majority of cloud services for the Intelligence community. This led to them having a distinct advantage because they already had the certified infrastructure to handle US Secret and Top Secret information. This was (in my own thoughts) why that immediate capability was stressed so much in the initial request for proposal.
Maybe not on the raw technology for edge cases, but in terms of actually supporting DoD business needs it is for sure. I have worked for two branches in the past 4 years assisting in migration to Office365 and certain legacy database systems into Azure. The vast majority of legacy IT in the DoD essentially supports AD/Office/Exchange which is far easier to migrate.
Glad to see that Red Hat is still committed to the Open Source movement after so many naysayers predicted that all contributions going forward would be stymied due to the announcement of the acquisition.