Open source developer here. Also used to get Certum certificates with reduced price for open source developers, but their smartcard junk convinced me to use ano

Open source developer here. Also used to get Certum certificates with reduced price for open source developers, but their smartcard junk convinced me to use another provider. And they also raised their pricing policy. I ended up with Comodo, which was "cheap". I then discovered that this was cheap for a reason: they did not provide the identity validation (something which was not clearly stated anywhere), and I had to pay for a notary certification (which was about twice as much as the certificate price), because apparently in the US an ID card is considered as reliable as your sport club membership card. The whole Microsoft code certification is a shit show. It provides no security whatsoever, feeds an incredible number of incompetent parasites, and at the end is a real burden for open source developers like me, who want to get rid of the nasty Windows security messages, but also want to avoid being targeted by download sites bundling your binaries with some adware crap. A "let's encrypt for code" ? Please sign-me up!