Why open source?
Jan. 4th, 2022 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ivanana...because you always know you're doing a good thing.
When you ask a junior web developer where he would like to work, chances are they will mention some tech giant. Or any reputable company with a quality team and good opportunities for development and progress. And that's a good career plan, but I will leave it as a backup option though.
I always wanted my acts to have a positive impact on the community. As a journalist, my greatest satisfaction was to write about something important or, as an editor, to order that kind of article and place it in a newspaper. It is an idealist approach that I could argue against any time, but I like it and I choose to stick to it.
That is why the last thing I want in my new profession is to be part of a project that could, for example, make money by stealing the data of its users. One of the reasons for leaving my previous career was the general degradation of journalism, with low-quality content in commercial media, click bytes and copy-paste, sometimes even insufficiently verified information. Therefore, I can't imagine working on a project that can increase the visibility of fake news, improve the spreading of inappropriate content, ideas or trends.
Of course, most beginners web development positions do not lead to such a situation, but open source is the only area where there is absolutely no danger. It is, simply put, the common good of the virtual world.
When you ask a junior web developer where he would like to work, chances are they will mention some tech giant. Or any reputable company with a quality team and good opportunities for development and progress. And that's a good career plan, but I will leave it as a backup option though.
I always wanted my acts to have a positive impact on the community. As a journalist, my greatest satisfaction was to write about something important or, as an editor, to order that kind of article and place it in a newspaper. It is an idealist approach that I could argue against any time, but I like it and I choose to stick to it.
That is why the last thing I want in my new profession is to be part of a project that could, for example, make money by stealing the data of its users. One of the reasons for leaving my previous career was the general degradation of journalism, with low-quality content in commercial media, click bytes and copy-paste, sometimes even insufficiently verified information. Therefore, I can't imagine working on a project that can increase the visibility of fake news, improve the spreading of inappropriate content, ideas or trends.
Of course, most beginners web development positions do not lead to such a situation, but open source is the only area where there is absolutely no danger. It is, simply put, the common good of the virtual world.
