I accidentally purchased a RHEL subscription (a year) a couple days ago, and
Red Hat has a flat no refunds policy.

Customer service advised me that I can sell it or donate it.

Anyone want to buy it at a reduced price?

It is a great product. But I have two subscriptions and I only need one.

The best e-mail for me is dashley at gmail dot com.

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David T. Ashley wrote:
> I accidentally purchased a RHEL subscription (a year) a couple days ago, and
> Red Hat has a flat no refunds policy.
>
> Customer service advised me that I can sell it or donate it.
>
> Anyone want to buy it at a reduced price?
>
> It is a great product. But I have two subscriptions and I only need one.
>
> The best e-mail for me is dashley at gmail dot com.
>


I'd love to appropriate this subscription, as I am enrolled in a Linux
Plus precertifacation Class and need REHL for the aforementioned
class. am on a tight budget however And would appreciate it if you would
donated it to me for educational purposes.

Thanks,
Porter Smith

954-482-2178

Linux-Hawk <newshound88@commcast.net> writes:

>David T. Ashley wrote:
>> I accidentally purchased a RHEL subscription (a year) a couple days ago, and
>> Red Hat has a flat no refunds policy.
>>
>> Customer service advised me that I can sell it or donate it.
>>
>> Anyone want to buy it at a reduced price?
>>
>> It is a great product. But I have two subscriptions and I only need one.
>>
>> The best e-mail for me is dashley at gmail dot com.
>>


>I'd love to appropriate this subscription, as I am enrolled in a Linux
>Plus precertifacation Class and need REHL for the aforementioned
>class. am on a tight budget however And would appreciate it if you would
> donated it to me for educational purposes.

First lesson then for your Linux Plus precertification. Linux is GPL. That
means that you do not need to pay anyone for RHEL. Find a friend who has it
and copy it ( yes, that is completely legal), go to a number of places on
line who sell RHEL with a namechange and stripping out some trademarks (eg,
Pinktie from www.cheapbytes.com and others)
(yes, again completely legal-- read the GPL license as part of your classi
preparation)
What is being sold is a subscription, granting you support rights for that
RHEL-- ie you can phone them, go onto their web page for updates ( again
also available elsewhere since it is GPL) etc. It is a service, not RHEL
that is being sold.

On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:17:53 +0000, Unruh wrote:

> Linux-Hawk <newshound88@commcast.net> writes:
>
>>David T. Ashley wrote:
>>> I accidentally purchased a RHEL subscription (a year) a couple days
>>> ago, and Red Hat has a flat no refunds policy. Customer service
>>> advised me that I can sell it or donate it. Anyone want to buy it at a
>>> reduced price? It is a great product. But I have two subscriptions
>>> and I only need one. The best e-mail for me is dashley at gmail dot
>>> com.
>
>>I'd love to appropriate this subscription, as I am enrolled in a Linux
>>Plus precertifacation Class and need REHL for the aforementioned
>>class. am on a tight budget however And would appreciate it if you would
>> donated it to me for educational purposes.
>
> First lesson then for your Linux Plus precertification. Linux is GPL.
> That means that you do not need to pay anyone for RHEL. Find a friend
> who has it and copy it ( yes, that is completely legal), go to a number
> of places on line who sell RHEL with a namechange and stripping out some
> trademarks (eg, Pinktie from www.cheapbytes.com and others) (yes, again
> completely legal-- read the GPL license as part of your classi
> preparation)
> What is being sold is a subscription, granting you support rights for
> that RHEL-- ie you can phone them, go onto their web page for updates (
> again also available elsewhere since it is GPL) etc. It is a service,
> not RHEL that is being sold.

This post is about the subscription, not the software.

....and the OP might want to search for the term "non-transferable" in the
EULA.

--
I told you this was going to happen.

"Linux-Hawk" <newshound88@commcast.net> wrote in message
news:tKmdncIVUtHoiDTVnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> David T. Ashley wrote:
>> I accidentally purchased a RHEL subscription (a year) a couple days ago,
>> and Red Hat has a flat no refunds policy.
>>
>> Customer service advised me that I can sell it or donate it.
>>
>> Anyone want to buy it at a reduced price?
>>
>> It is a great product. But I have two subscriptions and I only need one.
>>
>> The best e-mail for me is dashley at gmail dot com.
>>
>
>
> I'd love to appropriate this subscription, as I am enrolled in a Linux
> Plus precertifacation Class and need REHL for the aforementioned class.
> am on a tight budget however And would appreciate it if you would donated
> it to me for educational purposes.
>
> Thanks,
> Porter Smith
>
> 954-482-2178

Hi Porter,

Thanks for your post. Sorry I was slow in coming back to this newsgroup.

The subscription was $349. The price I had in mind was half-value, which is
about $175.

Another poster mentioned that the EULA says it is non-transferable. Red
Hat's customer service says otherwise, and I can forward you the e-mail if
you want to write me directly at dashley at gmail dot com. The e-mail
includes instructions.

If you are simply learning Linux, as another poster pointed out, you can
download several great free distributions. The distributions will be fully
functional, including compilers, Apache, PHP, etc. For learning, I'm not
sure why you'd want Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Please feel free to correspond.

Dave Ashley.

"Ivan Marsh" <ivanmarsh@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:pan.2008.08.18.18.52.38.188882@yahoo.com...
>
> ...and the OP might want to search for the term "non-transferable" in the
> EULA.

Thanks for bringing that point up. Red Hat's customer service says it is
transferrable, and they gave me written instructions.