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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 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)?

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Quill'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.

> 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.

I don't think there was anything "accusatory", it's a legitimate question.

The comment reads like it’s being accusatory to me

Considering 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.

But there's 0 proof that Microsoft has ever used this. Without evidence, these claims are useless

I believe the implication is that those companies uses the library in their products to power rich text editing

I’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.

No 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

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