According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee,
I was
lucky enough to invent the Web at the time when the Internet
already existed - and had for a decade and a half.
We must understand that there is nothing fundamentally wrong
with building on the contributions of others.
According to the Mozilla Manifesto,
Individuals
must have the ability to shape the Internet and
their own experiences on the Internet.
Therefore, we can infer that contributing to the open web
can protect our own individual experiences on it.