Well in many countries it's not allowed to use your mobile phone while driving, and reprogramming your navigation system falls into the same category. And pulling off and on a highway doesn't really sound worse than not paying full attention to the road for a minute or so while driving 120km/h.

I bet you could find some random rightsholder that would try to sue you for that...

yeah, you'd think they would stick to it...

In Firefox you can do the same (right click the search field, select "add a keyword for this search"). But with his method you get google to search on thepiratebay.se instead of using the sites own search function.

FTFY

...and submit the howto afterwards?

is this supposed to be some kind of trap?

Why should Nvidia contribute to open source projects? I mean, as a company they have to make money, not friends in the open source community. Don't get me wrong, I think it would be great if they "open sourced" their drivers, but if they don't it still seems like a reasonable decision from their point of view. Why invest time and money if you don't get enough out of it?

Now Linux gave this statement in response to a question from the audience, as one woman said that two years ago she had bought a laptop with two graphics cars (Intel and Nvidia) and there weren't any half-decent drivers until six months ago (I think switching between onboard and dedicated card didn't work until then). Now as I understand, at the time she bought the laptop she knew there weren't any drivers out yet but expected to get support in maybe six months or so.

I can understand her frustration, but who in their right mind buys a device that he knows has only half-working drivers? I do understand the desire (need?) to have the latest and greatest, but if it's not supported properly it's useless.

To me this is the real issue here; if you want to use linux on a laptop with the current generation of graphics cards, you probably are shit outta luck. It's not so much that you can't have open source drivers, but that not even fully working binary drivers exist.