Isn't this similar to the way things were before Cent OS was acquired? Or did they make source rpms available to everyone freely back then? EDIT: I looked into

Isn't this similar to the way things were before Cent OS was acquired? Or did they make source rpms available to everyone freely back then? EDIT: I looked into it a bit more and it looks like there used to be an FTP site with SRPMS. ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/os/SRPMS/