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7z needs to sign their binaries on windows.
by gxt 4y ago
7z needs to sign their binaries on windows.
- account42 4y agoMicrosoft needs to provide reasonable means for open source developer to sign their binaries on windows. Having to pay for the priviledge of being allowed to provide free software is not reasonable.
- badsectoracula 4y agoHaving to pay for the privilege to provide any software is not reasonable, Microsoft is just giving the certificate cartels unjustified power (which wouldn't be solved if Microsoft themselves signed the software since that'd still be giving Microsoft said unjustified power).
- WorldMaker 4y agoMicrosoft provides the Microsoft Store which when you distribute apps through it Microsoft can handle all the binary signing. The price of that has dropped down to $19/year for "individual developers" [1]. That seems pretty reasonable to me, I'd hope most open source developers could get at least get a Github sponsorship for $20 every 12 months. Rumors are that if you are an open source developer with a well known app you can get the "developer account" for free if you find the right channel to ask, they do seem to want more "official" distributions of open source on the Store. Obviously, that's not the answer a lot of open source developers want because of mistrust in the Store and Store distribution, but after years of all the complaints of the CA cartels and people asking for an alternative, Microsoft built an alternative (and no one came, lol). [1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/register/ https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/regist...
- tech234a 4y agoThe $19 appears to be a one time fee, not an annual one.