A subscriber wrote me to ask about a warning that she received when she was installing a version of OpenOffice.org. Windows popped up a warning that the "Publisher could not be verified" and asked for confirmation on whether to allow the installation or not.

This is a new Microsoft validation scheme that many publishers of free software don’t want to pay for or in which they don’t want to participate. I believe this showed up with Windows XP Service Pack 2.

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