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RHEL doesnt need to since to get packages access you need to register your system with your rhn account...

Fedora or CentOS does not

The "dynamic MOTD" was introduced c. 2009, IIRC, but that was all locally-generated stuff.

I'm pretty sure the "phone home" crap started shipping with Ubuntu 17.04.

redhat actually invented this crap in the linux world. I abandoned redhat in 99 because it overwrote my config files. now every distro does it