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DS Flash Carts Deemed Legal By French Court
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."
If WGA stands for "Wildly Greased Ass" then I think you will find many people willing to provide what you seek, you might want to state a gender preference to thin down the volume of responses a bit.
Cheap shot? Are you on Crack? Windows is as open as a cold war missile silo in 1963 whhen they are at DEFCON5, the missile has already been fueled, the codes have already been sent, received, verified, the safe unlocked, the keys removed from the safe, the keys have been inserted, turned, and there is just that last big red button to push. Thats how open microsoft is to development outside of their silo. To say otherwise, means YOU ARE SO ON CRACK YOU CAN"T EVEN TELL ANYMORE THAT YOU ARE ON CRACK! Judgement is THAT impaired. Now go type in your license key, throw away all of the old ones, make sure you destroy all old copies as per the license agreement, send in the monthly cheque, phone in with the authorisation number to get help with the problems you've been having, tell them the cheque number you sent them so that they will help you, and get an ETA from them on when you think they will have processed your cheque, and then later when your call in window (for the help queue) will be up --when you can call in and hope to get help. Remember to tell them your version is double-gold certified (not that cheap stuff they sell at best buy), and you have more than a million dollars per month of their business, so you can get help a bit quicker.
Hold on, as an OWNER of one of these flash carts, I have to say Nintendo is pretty justified in trying to stop these things from selling legally. Have you seen or used these flash carts? I would guess about 90-95% of them are used to pirate DS games, while the other 5-10% are used to emulate older games (NES, GBA, etc.) and play media.
There is a card out that purposely does not attempt to play commercial games called the iPlayer card. This flash cart reads music, video, pictures, and so on along with homebrew games. The most popular operating operating system/media player out there is called MoonShell, which does not play commercial games. Honestly, it's pretty trivial to not allow pirating of DS games on these flash carts, but almost all the companies making them are obviously promoting them to play "back-ups".
Using that logic, bittorrent ought to be illegal, because it's mostly used for pirating software.
So far no attempts at a truly open console have been successful.
Because of anticompetitive practices like this. Open consoles can't sell their hardware at a loss and make up for it in licensing fees. So they have to be sold at a higher price, which puts them at a disadvantage, even if you are paying more over the long term due to the licensing fees.
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