acroread is still distributed as an rpm in the SL CERN extras repo. They also distribute flash-plugin and some other things. Access to these repos seems to be publicly allowed.
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Name : acroread Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 9.5.5 Vendor: Scientific Linux CERN,
http://cern.ch/linuxRelease : 1.slc6 Build Date: Wed 15 May 2013 05:37:52 AM PDT
Install Date: Thu 16 May 2013 04:14:57 AM PDT Build Host: lxdist04
Group : Applications/Publishing Source RPM: acroread-9.5.5-1.slc6.src.rpm
Size : 141472048 License: Commercial, Distributable
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Wed 15 May 2013 06:17:46 AM PDT, Key ID 5e03fde51d1e034b
Packager : CERN Linux Support <
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URL :
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readermain.html
Summary : Adobe Reader for viewing PDF files