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diff --git a/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst b/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst
index 4bff01f..b6a2de7 100644
--- a/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst
+++ b/content/drafts/red-hat-open-source-community.rst
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ software that is a decade old, and which its maintainers want nothing to do
with. This post isn't about whether maintaining old software is a good or a bad
idea. It's about the effect it has on the community.
-The Python core developers have ceased providing *any* support for Python 2.6 as
-of October 2013, but Red Hat will continue to support it in RHEL 5, until 2020.
+The Python core developers have ceased providing *any* support for Python 2.6
+as of October 2013, but Red Hat will continue to support it in RHEL 5, until
+2020. (RHEL 5 actually comes with Python 2.4, which was last updated in 2008,
+but you can get Python 2.6 via EPEL).
Many Python projects (such as Django, Twisted, and PyCA Cryptography) are
therefore looking to drop 2.6 support, to lighten their maintenance burden and
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