Microsoft 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

Microsoft 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...