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.