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		koenigdavidmj on March 4, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Red Hat's response to the "obfuscated" source code... I have heard but not validated that RH contracts have a clause that if you ask for the source, they give it to you and then promptly cut your support contract.

maw on March 4, 2011 [–]

The source is available: see ftp.redhat.com:/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS for instance.

Maybe explicitly asking for the source is considered different somehow from just ftping it, but I doubt it very much.

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