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DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court

Posted by timothy on from the not-open-like-all-the-french-consoles dept.

Hatta writes with a snippet from MaxConsole: "Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to."

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  1. Windows as the standard? by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Funny

    When someone holds up Windows as the standard for openness that you should strive for, you have to be really messing up!

    1. Re:Windows as the standard? by deprecated · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Lose," not "loose," for Christ's sake!

    2. Re:Windows as the standard? by dem0n1 · · Score: 1, Funny

      And wtf does that have to do with 'openness' of a OS?

      And just so you know, there are lots of free, and even open source, development environments for Windows.

      Notepad?

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  2. Re:Copy Apple & Google by biryokumaru · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ya, the iPhone is a great example. The DS definitely needs 500 "iFart" applications for $10 each.

    *cough*

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  3. Any Application they want to? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    It is not true that you can develop any application you want to for Windows. People who develop WGA cracks get hounded like crazy. Linux is the platform that lets you do ANYTHING.
     
    Speaking of which, does anybody have a link to a working WGA crack?

  4. SACRE BLEU !! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Le DS nintendo le garbage le stinko !!

  5. Don't think it's done by Sterops · · Score: 3, Funny

    When the decision will be appealed, everything will change: French judges uses RNGs to decide which one is right (except if you attack the government; in that case, you're always wrong).

  6. Re:You shouldn't be really care by EdIII · · Score: 4, Funny

    A famous Chinese proverb: "I don't care if it is black cat or white cat. If it catch a mouse, it is a good cat."

    A true Chinese proverb: "I don't care if it is black cat or white cat. You can still pass it off as Kung Pao Chicken"

  7. Re:You shouldn't be really care by bentcd · · Score: 3, Funny

    A true Chinese proverb: "I don't care if it is black cat or white cat. You can still pass it off as Kung Pao Chicken"

    FYI, cat meat does not taste at all like chicken (light or dark meat). The texture and flavor of cat meat is quite different, and even a liberal dose of spices cannot mask this difference.

    Hence the Chinese proverb: "damn, that's the worst chicken I ever tasted!"

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