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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No problem.  I don't want us to bang our heads against the wall if the
price is a few hundred bucks a year--it feels gross but us getting to work
on funner problems than "getting microsoft to like us" is definitely worth
that to me :)

Adam Wolf

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Adam,
>
> Thanks for the offer.  I'm hoping we can live without giving money to
> Microsoft or any of their signing agents for the time being.  The idea
> of giving them money to use software they did not create rubs me the
> wrong way.  If our backs are up against the wall, then I will consider it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
>
>
> On 2/17/2016 6:21 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> > I tend to not follow most of the Windows stuff, but if there's a
> > financial way we can fix this problem, with a little more certainty than
> > "maybe it'll help", please ping me :)
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Adam Wolf
> > Cofounder and Engineer
> > Wayne and Layne
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx
> > <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >
> >     FWIW, I tried to run the Windows App Certification Kit on the
> >     installer and it errored with an invalid "Publisher" property. And I
> >     can see in my nsis script that that variable is empty so I have tried
> >     to enter something there now, and I will retest tomorrow to see if
> >     that fixes that single issue. I think that was the only thing that
> was
> >     marked as failed, there were a couple of warnings.
> >
> >     2016-02-17 23:48 GMT+01:00 Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> >     > It's hard to say, Microsoft keeps quiet on most details. EV
> >     > code-signing certs supposedly are given "good" reputation
> immediately.
> >     > EV certs cost $$$ and require a legal business registration
> >     > (+identification to prove it to the CA).
> >     >
> >     > But that's the theory because they also say:
> >     > "Other factors are considered when generating reputation and
> >     > determining product experiences and EV-signed programs will be
> closely
> >     > monitored over time."
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > So they can shitlist your EV cert anyway for things as simple as
> >     > "Windows has detected the installer did not complete" messages that
> >     > are kind of typical on bad setups :/ They do base things on on the
> >     > telemetry windows gathers.
> >     >
> >     >
> >     > Other than that's it's not difficult or anything to sign the builds
> >     > with a different certificate since its just a single command line
> once
> >     > the cert is in the server's certificate store.
> >     >
> >     > So its mostly the money and risk factor (that it doesn't work).
> >
> >
> >
> >
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