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:''The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. - [http://www.mozilla.org/about/manifesto.en.html Mozilla Manifesto]''

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:''Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet.''

A core part of our collective work is promoting and protecting an open web that allows for [http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/23/zittrains-the-future.html generativity]--the ability for people to make new and unanticipated things online. We do this through software, developer education and community building aimed at promoting the technologies that make the web open. We also engage with Internet users everywhere to explain and encourage the value of participation and distributed decision making as part of the internet's DNA.