Yeah that’s right. For a whopping one time purchase of 250$, you get a lifetime license for a @linux.com domain as an email alias/forwarding only. You cannot send emails from this. You can contact support to check if the alias you want is available too.
Imagine this on your CV. It is the ultimate flex.
I got one in like 2009 or so as a student at university. It literally paid for itself, because it also let me get a discount on a new laptop that was bigger than the price I paid the Linux Foundation.
I can confirm that my linux.com e-mail is still active, and I’ve changed where it forwards over the years.
Just make sure that wherever you’re forwarding it, you can reply from that same address. GMail has been fine for this, but when I switched to a different provider that didn’t support this, conversations started getting awkward.
wait how? would love to hear the story around this lol
Not much of a story to tell, honestly. I still have some e-mail receipts from around that time, but here’s a Reddit post about the idea: https://redd.it/2ehu1r