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They started it because the drivers people used to use from hardware vendors would routinely blue screen windows, which made MS look like the reason windows wou
by rstupek 6mo ago
They started it because the drivers people used to use from hardware vendors would routinely blue screen windows, which made MS look like the reason windows would crash. Hardware vendors are notoriously inept at software.
- VertanaNinjai 6mo agoÍ think their point was that Wireguard has no physical hardware, so it’s strange as a software project they’d be forced to go through verification for a hardware program.
- nine_k 6mo agoBecause it's a kernel driver anyway?
- anakaine 6mo agoThen the program should have been named the kernel level driver verification program.
- literalAardvark 6mo agoMate this is Microsoft. We're lucky it's not called Azure Copilot Verification Program (New)
- UqWBcuFx6NV4r 6mo agoOkay. So they can call it the “hardware and WireGuard” program for all I care. The reality is that MS requires this sort of approval / verification process for whatever WireGuard is doing. In true HN fashion everyone loves getting distracted by utter meaningless semantics.
- anakaine 6mo agoThose meaningless semantics are part of how this got missed in the first place, and why it caused such an issue. Microsoft is a large company, and a poorly named program created requirements that were missed.
- olyjohn 6mo agoIt's a virtual network interface. So it's not really hardware, but the computer treats it like it is.
- AnthonyMouse 6mo ago> They started it because the drivers people used to use from hardware vendors would routinely blue screen windows, which made MS look like the reason windows would crash. Hardware vendors are notoriously inept at software. But hardware vendors also want Windows licenses to include with their hardware, so it's pretty easy to say "do the hardware program certification if you want the discount" and that's exactly what they did in the early days, and it worked fine. Even the peripherals (which are increasingly rare now anyway) still want to be able to put the Windows logo on their product. At which point we still have the same question: Why are they harassing the WireGuard developers, who have their own reputation for not being inept at software and therefore shouldn't need a Microsoft certification program to assure their users that their code is trustworthy to install?
- unmole 6mo ago> Why are they harassing the WireGuard developers, who have their own reputation for not being inept at software I would guess this is just large organizations Seeing Like a State whereby they "seek to force administrative legibility on their subjects by homogenizing them". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State
- AnthonyMouse 6mo agoAt which point we're back to, why is Microsoft acting like a government and treating their users like property of the crown instead of autonomous adult human beings who should be free to choose what software they want on their own PC?
- Barbing 6mo agoall five letters of that answer are in your username :)
- defrost 6mo agoAre you thinking of a single five letter word, two words of three and two letters, or an entire sentence that only uses 5 distinct letters? Consider being less cryptic, for the sake of those with English as a fourth language.