Open internet for everyone
A movement for digital ownership, protocols over platforms, and sovereignty over your data and devices.
This is not a startup or a token. It is a movement and a technical doctrine: a manifesto, architectural principles, and public use cases for those who want an internet without remote kill switches and walled ecosystems.
Manifesto of the Open Internet 4.0
- Digital Ownership Is Real Ownership. If you buy it, you own it. No remote revocation. No hidden kill switches.
- Devices Must Work Without Permission. Hardware must not depend on continuous corporate authorization to function.
- Software Is Infrastructure. Critical digital services must rely on open standards and auditable protocols.
- Data Belongs to the Individual. User data must be exportable, portable, and locally accessible.
- Offline First. Every essential system must degrade gracefully and function without central servers.
- Interoperability Is a Right. No artificial lock-ins. No forced ecosystems.
- Transparency Over Trust. Trust must be replaced by verifiable architecture.
- Repair, Modify, Fork. Users must have the legal and technical right to repair and modify their digital tools.
- Protocols Over Platforms. The internet should be built on open protocols, not corporate walled gardens.
- Digital Sovereignty Is Civil Sovereignty. Control over digital infrastructure equals political autonomy.
The text of this manifesto is licensed under CC BY 4.0 — copy, translate, quote and republish it freely, with attribution to own-net.com.
OwnNet Source License 1.1
Our software is open — but not unconditional. The license is a direct extension of the manifesto: source code is available for study, improvement, and sharing, but may not be used to build systems that contradict what we stand for.
Permitted
- Study, fork, and contribute to the code
- Any non-commercial use, and use in a business with under USD $100,000 annual revenue
- Derivative works — under the same license (ShareAlike)
Prohibited
- Use in Closed Systems: remote kill switches, forced lock-in, blocked modification
- Surveillance or data collection without explicit user consent
- Commercial Use without a written agreement: revenue above USD $100,000, paid SaaS, or selling the software itself
Every repository ships the full text as a LICENSE file with its own parameters block (project name, attribution line). Contributions are accepted under Section 6 of the license. © 2026 Serhii Merenkov / Technologies LLC.