2 posts tagged with "open source"

As of October 26^th, 2021, I have resigned from the AMP Technical Steering Committee. Though no small part of it was brought on by mounting responsibilities at work and at home, I cannot in good conscience recommend AMP to my peers due to recent disclosures about Google’s advertising conduct and its positioning of AMP.

Why not just stick to web standards and build meat and potatoes web pages that can work with whatever ad exchange you need?

Because Google can also simultaneously exert pressure onto publishers to use AMP to increase likelihood of search ranking performance.

— Lívia Labate (@livlab) October 25, 2021

I’ve been sitting on this decision for a long time. It’s not easy to abandon something I have poured a lot of thought, care, time, and effort into. It’s almost like quitting a job… except I never got paid for the job.

Open source was, is, and will continue to be the gateway for my entire skillset. Without it, I don’t think I would have ever learned how write software, let alone ever have become a software developer.