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Factors keep both items expensive, and both are effectively required for doing certain types of business.
by tomc1985 8y ago
Factors keep both items expensive, and both are effectively required for doing certain types of business.
- cwyers 8y agoMedallions are an artificial constraint on supply -- the point of them is to shrink the market. Code signing provides a benefit -- it's a way for a user to ensure they have the right installer and that it wasn't changed by a nefarious third party.
- tomc1985 8y agoAnd are code-signing certs really so different? The reporting and regulatory requirements behind them make me think that they are an intentional barrier-to-entry for newcomers, amateurs, and startups, and the business student in me admires their moat-like quality. Code-signing certs lock a lot of people out of certain channels of software distribution