If you publish a cert for your product and require (for whatever reason) all 3rd parties validate the cert before using it, you're going to have a very bad time

If you publish a cert for your product and require (for whatever reason) all 3rd parties validate the cert before using it, you're going to have a very bad time here. It could cost you contracts. Now, this could be the fault digicert's customers, but suing to block revocation would be logical.