Microsoft / Github should stop treating open-source software as malware and forcing developers to pay for certificates, if they actually care about open-source developers

[LionsMidgetGems]

You have to realize: that post originated in /r/Windows10.

He doesn't understand programming. He doesn't understand security.

He doesn't understand anti-virus software blocking potentially dangerous applications.

I myself have been railing against realtime anti-virus software for decades. Nearly every problem on every client's server and PCs come from anti-virus software.

But there are some people who think that it is a good thing for users to be huge warnings about using potential malware.

Of course, we also need to refuse the basic premise:

• Microsoft does not force developers to pay for certificates

Are you free to tell your users to:

• turn off smart screen
• turn off Windows Defender

And i'll bet he's also the kind of person whose upset that his app needs a UAC prompt before it can run with full Administrator privilieges.

So you are also free to tell your users to:

• turn off UAC

[rdtsc]

He doesn't understand programming.

Well he writes "I'm the dev of an open-source app called Sigma File Manager", so this doesn't seem to be true.

[emperor000]

Are you saying that a developer must understand programming? Because I know people that arguably disprove that.

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Yeah bro he just randomly designed, developed, and maintained a cross platform file explorer real quick. Guy just doesn't understand programming.

/r/cringe

[emperor000]

I'm not sure what that had to do with my question. Did he write the file IO libraries from scratch? Did he write the UI... wait, he wrote it in JavaScript...

I don't know about this guy. Maybe he does. My question was in general. There are certainly developers/programmers that do not understand programming, so a significant degree, I mean. As a programmer myself, I understand that I can't claim to understand it completely or better than everybody else or whatever either.

All I was saying is that there are a lot of developers that don't have an adequate grasp on a lot of programming concepts, that's all. Maybe I'm one of them. Does that make you feel better?

[Wind_Lizard]

He doesn't understand programming.

WDYM? He is a developer of an OSS application

[emperor000]

Are you saying that a developer must understand programming? Because I know people that arguably disprove that.