On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 07:13:48PM +0200, Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/16/06, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/06/06, ryan@dobreprogramy.pl ryan@dobreprogramy.pl wrote:
at all ("Because ideas want to be free" seems to be closer to MW's idea)
I'd rather ditch the motto.
I'm glad someone else said it first. "Ideas want to be free" is kind of cute. "Power your ideas" sounds like a dot-com startup trying to get off the ground.
That actually touches on what I was thinking: I don't think the slogan should necessarily be changed wholesale, but simply dropping the "because" would probably be a significant improvement. Is there someone else also using "ideas want to be free", sans-"because", that might produce some kind of conflict with MediaWiki using the same phrase?
"Ideas want to be free" is kind of a statement of philosophy and purpose. "Because ideas want to be free" sounds more like an excuse, to me. "Power your ideas" sounds like marketing.
Just my two pence.