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?
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".
Consider being less cryptic, for the sake of those with English as a fourth language.
Wordplay are exactly the kind of stuff that LLMs excel at, so I asked Gemini flash, and I got
> snarky play on words by suggesting that the answer to AnthonyMouse's question is "Money."
> Here is the breakdown of how they arrived at that:
> The Username: AnthonyMouse
> The Letters: The word "Money" can be formed using the letters found in M-o-n-t-h-o-n-y M-o-u-s-e
(Gemini's answer is actually longer, I just kept the interesting bit)
Amusingly, this answer exhibits a similar problem to the "how many r in raspberry" problem (it forgets how to spell correctly), since
AnthonyMouse != M-o-n-t-h-o-n-y M-o-u-s-e
But it seems that it got to the correct answer (or an incorrect but plausible :) ) despite that
Plausible candidates include "asset", "enemy", "homes", "mates", "moats", "money", "nasty", "state", "stunt".