Nintendo has other restrictions -- like a prohibition on using open-source code in your project, and a requirement that you have an office outside your home -- that Apple doesn't have.

It would be difficult to argue that Nintendo's developer agreement is more lenient than Apple's.

Stop spreading FUD. Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony allow you to use open-source, if BSD/MIT/public-domain or the likes of the licenses are used - that includes - SQLite, Lua, ZLib, and many others.

I do not have firsthand knowledge of that; I was repeating something I read in reference to the ScummVM / Atari GPL lawsuit.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Atari-settle-over-Scu...

http://sev-notes.blogspot.com/2009/06/gpl-scummvm-and-violat...

I did not mean to spread a mistruth. Perhaps they meant GPL specifically when they said open source? I expect it runs contrary to the "Confidentiality Agreement" clause.

I've reread my message, and it was bit harsh. Sorry about that!

Those are both less restrictive than telling you how to think and how to behave. Nintendo's is dumb, Apple's is evil.