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Sure it's trivial, but it is tacit acceptance that you need permission to make a program on their platform. Permission that needs to be renewed year over year.

• hkpack 2y ago
  It is permission to _distribute to others_, you can build and run on your own computer without a problem. Once signed, binary will work forever, you only need active subscription when you need to re-sign / re-notarise.
  • jasonjayr 2y ago
    They can revoke a signature too.
    • hkpack 2y ago
      If your signature is compromised and you start signing malware then yes. That's the whole purpose of it. Do you have any evidence that it happened in any different circumstances at least once?