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No, RHEL isn't freemium. They sold you access to the source code. You also have the right to redistribute RHEL, which is how CentOS happened.

I understand they did threaten to terminate support if you redistributed, but they couldn't stop you from doing so if you so chose.



They also require a support contract to view their bug tracker.




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