[okfn-discuss] Next steps on the Open Knowledge Tagline

[Aaron Wolf]

At any rate, I should add that people who don't like the tagline as is
should propose variations. "Ideas" is nicely general without repeating the
word "knowledge".

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Aaron Wolf
wolftune.com


On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Aaron Wolf <wolftune at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniella,
>
> Thanks for sharing that neat poetry / song.
>
> The thing in this case is that "free" is a complex idea. Think about
> liberty. Are the thoughts free if they cannot escape your mind, cannot be
> uttered? Are they free if they are out there but YOU cannot *hear* them
> because the people who have them are not able to share?
>
> We are not freeing *thinking*, we are freeing *ideas*. We're not freeing
> people to have ideas at all, we're assuring that ideas are themselves free,
> free to travel, to be shared. An idea in a government file that is
> classified is not a free idea.
>
> Best,
> Aaron
>
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