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What does “trusted by” actually means? A friend of mine works at Microsoft and they have never heard of this project. • Is it that they know one person at Micr
by guessmyname 3y ago
What does “trusted by” actually means? A friend of mine works at Microsoft and they have never heard of this project.
• Is it that they know one person at Microsoft, any random employee among +221k, who uses the editor?
• Or is it that one of the developers works at Microsoft? (which, unless they are Satya Nadella, shouldn’t matter)
• Or is it that their (not so anonymous) telemetry tells them that someone is using the editor from a Microsoft-owned IP address?
• Or are the company logos simply there to mislead potential new users into thinking those companies actually trust the developer(s)?
- eropple 3y agoQuill's an extremely well-known JavaScript rich text editing control, not an "app". Were you confused by the example at the top of the landing page? Your friend might not have heard of it, but I'd be more surprised if Microsoft didn't have significant projects using it because it's so well-established. And having large adopters of an open-source library featured on the landing page is not unusual. I'm unclear as to what there deserves this kind of accusatory posturing.
- gremlinunderway 3y agoI don't think there was anything "accusatory", it's a legitimate question.
- aprilnya 3y agoThe comment reads like it’s being accusatory to me
- throw10920 3y ago> I'm unclear as to what there deserves this kind of accusatory posturing. The project claims to be "trusted" by one of the largest tech companies in the US. Asking for a definition of "trusted" is extremely reasonable, and calling it "accusatory posturing" is not only inaccurate (the comment itself reads pretty neutrally), but also somewhat emotionally manipulative.
- siggi_pop 3y ago[dead]
- QualmsAplenty 3y ago[dead]
- bearcobra 3y agoI believe the implication is that those companies uses the library in their products to power rich text editing
- pembrook 3y agoConsidering the size of Microsoft and the hundreds/thousands of teams building various things, I would guess that most well known open-source projects (like Quill) have been used by Microsoft at some point. I would be very surprised if no team there had used Quill before.
- efilife 3y agoBut there's 0 proof that Microsoft has ever used this. Without evidence, these claims are useless
- al_borland 3y agoI’ve seen the company I work at show up on sites like this, when I’ve been explicitly told we can’t use whatever the thing is. My guess is all it takes is 1 person inside Microsoft using it, or even 1 load of the library from a Microsoft owned IP.
- efilife 3y agoNo idea why you got downvoted. It's very reasonable to ask about this considering they didn't provide a definition of trusted and there's 0 proof anyone from MS used their product. False claims