On Saturday 13 Feb 2010 2:00:46 pm Saravanan S wrote: > > in short, they are not selling the OS or distro - they are selling > > support. Question is: are they charging sales tax or service tax? > > Yes, Red Hat charge for the RHN (Red Hat Network ) subscription. Unlike > fedora, yum does-not work free in RHEL, but needs subscription from Red Hat > Network to access the RHEL repository, unless you have a local yum > repository. > There's also an installation number that is required to install RHEL. > I received RHEL 5 DVD a year back for my Research and Study, advantage of > being RHCE. ;) >
the question was: are they selling a product (which means they charge sales tax or VAT) or are they selling a service (which means they charge service tax) -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
