[Info-vax] The VSI Hobbyist program is Live!

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On Wednesday, July 29, 2020 at 4:19:27 AM UTC-7, johnwa... at yahoo.co.uk wrote:

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> Is it competing with Red Hat? Is actual RHEL downloadable for free? Not 
> as such, as far as I know. Rebranded/debranded variants, maybe. That may 
> or may not change following RedHat's takeover by IBM. 

What does "actual" mean?

ScientificLinux is Redhat recompiled, with all the "Redhat" changed
to "ScientificLinux".    If you want Redhat without paid support, 
it is there. 

GPL requires source to be downloadable free.  
Fermilab compiles the source and distributes the result. 

If you could download VMS source, compile it yourself, and run it,
would you do that?  Instead of downloading install disks?