Unfortunately, you are exposing yourself as fairly ignorant on this topic. Sorry but that claim is once again just totally wrong. The only thing free from Red Hat was Fedora, a beta product, for the desktop. You really need to brush up on some basic knowledge before you wade in against Freepers that have debated this subject for decades.
Again--incorrect. I ran Red Hat's product for free for several years. Not Fedora (though I did run that also), but Red Hat. What Red Hat charged for was support. Anyone could downloads and run the OS.
The general linux distributions have been free forever. The subscriptions entered the market when commercial interests were willing to pay for hot patching and general online updates ensuring enterprise class reliability and security. Nothing wrong with saying Red Hat when referring to the free distributions it made available. Same goes with SUSE (SLES, OpenSuse), and whatever distributions are provided by Oracle in the relatively recent years. I was an early adopter of Xen on SLES, and loved the Slackware distributions just because. I always had the option for the free distributions, but elected to pay for the SLES subscriptions for the hypervisors (for the obvious commercial reasons).
Thanks for taking the insults and heat from those who cannot tolerate any criticism or even observation about any of the numerous Linux Distributions and the companies that develop and release them.
What you are experiencing is similar to what happens if one makes an observation about the lack of veracity of global warming data on a MSM forum.