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Research center in universities, that some times need to use software for research that is only officially supported in RHEL but that does not have money to keep RHEL licenses.

One of the original RHEL clones was Scientific Linux that was maintained by those organizations for their use.

They dropped because CentOS better at the time and they were doubling effort for something that was already available.




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