For what it's worth, this wasn't to stop free software drivers, it was a stick to force IHVs to ship drivers that didn't suck, since they could no longer ship d

For what it's worth, this wasn't to stop free software drivers, it was a stick to force IHVs to ship drivers that didn't suck, since they could no longer ship drivers that didn't pass WHQL testing. The end result is a more stable system for consumers, but F/OSS got caught in the fallout. If you as a F/OSS driver dev really want to avoid signatures, sign your driver using the test cert and run the following command in your installer: bcdedit -set testsigning on