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*These principles have been inherited from https://our.status.im/our-principles/
Only minor stylistic changes have been made to them.*
*These principles have been inherited from https://our.status.im/our-principles/. Only minor stylistic changes have been made to them.*
# Principles
<br/>
The goal of Vac is widespread adoption of the decentralized web.
Our challenge is achieving mass adoption while staying true to our principles outlined below.
The goal of Vac is widespread adoption of the decentralised web.
Our challenge is achieving mass adoption while staying true to the principles outlined below.
## I. Liberty
We believe in the sovereignty of individuals.
As a research organization that stands for the cause of personal liberty,
we aim to maximize social, political, and economic freedoms.
This includes being coercion-resistant.
As a research organisation that stands for the cause of personal liberty,
we aim to maximise social, political, and economic freedoms.
This includes being coercion resistant.
## II. Censorship resistance
We enable free flow of information.
We enable the free flow of information.
No content is under surveillance.
We abide by the cryptoeconomic design principle of censorship resistance.
Even stronger, we design agnostic infrastructures for information.
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## V. Transparency
We strive for complete openness and symmetry of information within the organization,
We strive for complete openness and symmetry of information within the organisation,
and have no border between our core contributors and our community.
We are frank about our shortcomings,
especially when making short-term tradeoffs in service of our long-term goals.
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## VI. Openness
The software we create is a public good.
It is made available via a free and open source license,
for anyone to share, modify and benefit from.
We believe in permission-less participation.
It is made available via a free and open-source licence,
for anyone to share, modify, and benefit from.
We believe in permissionless participation.
## VII. Decentralization
## VII. Decentralisation
We minimize centralization across both the software and the organization itself.
In other words, we maximize the number of physical computers composing the network,
and maximize the number of individuals who have control over the system(s) we are building.
We minimise centralisation across both the software and the organisation itself.
In other words, we maximise the number of physical computers composing the network,
and maximise the number of individuals who have control over the system(s) we are building.
## VIII. Inclusivity
We believe in fair and widespread access to our software, with an emphasis on ease-of-use.
We believe in fair and widespread access to our software, with an emphasis on ease of use.
This also extends to social inclusivity, permissionless participation, interoperability,
and investing in educational efforts.
## IX. Continuance
We create software incentivized to continue to exist and improve,
We create software incentivised to continue to exist and improve
without the stewardship of a single entity or any of the current team members.
## X. Resourcefulness
We are relentlessly resourceful.
As we grow and have ready access to capital,
it is our obligation to token holders to fight bureaucracy and inefficiencies within the organization.
it is our obligation to token holders to fight bureaucracy and inefficiencies within the organisation.
This means solving problems in the most effective way possible at lower economic costs
(in terms of capital, time and resources).
(in terms of capital, time, and resources).