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That post reads like a 15 year old edge lord wrote it.

They have a point though. Open Source, one dev products are overlooked and most likely won't make the $ required to purchase a real cert. The options are then "unsigned", "self signed", or "pray and beg big corp that won't give a sh** about you"...

The post was being unreasonable about reasonable requirements. Notepad++ has generated so much goodwill over the years, all they'd have to do is ask. That's what I did with dbatools and I had several individuals and corps offer to pay. Not a universal outcome, but for N++, an obvious one.

Probably not, but that IS how it was supposed to be. You declare trust, not let an OS vendor do it on your behalf...