RHEL source code is freely available under the GPL (GNU General Public
License) for those who want to compile it themselves, but the actual
finished product costs money. Yes, there is CentOS, a free-to-download
clone of RHEL compiled from the source code by CentOS developers. But
Red Hat charges a premium for RHEL because it's (theoretically)
guaranteed to work—Red Hat and third-party software vendors make sure
that applications running on RHEL are not broken when the operating
system is updated.
---SPSmith
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