Re: Pirating Ubuntu?

["Matthew Gillen" <user=50@nabble.blu.org>]

 Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> When I was in college I purchased box versions of SuSE 7(?) and Red 
> Hat 8(?) for a friend (so they had official installation support and 
> nice physical documentation books), and then later ripped and uploaded 
> them to usenet.  I am still not sure if that was illegal or not, but 
> at the time, I was told that it was not.  I have never received an 
> official "yes" or "no".  That case was quite different than this, 
> because those were not third-party modifications.  They were directly 
> from the originating vendors (SuSE [it was not Novell yet] and Red 
> Hat).  I presumed what you were paying for were the physical 
> distribution, the box, documentation, and included phone support.  So, 
> was that illegal?