Why? According to wikipedia, a manifesto is a published verbal declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party or government.

Some manifestos are crazy, some are innocent, some are useful. Mozilla has a manifesto [1]. Apple has published a manifesto before [2]. And Debian [3]. The Russell-Einstein Manifesto against nuclear weapons [4]. Even the UN Universal declaration of human rights is a manifesto [5], or even similar documents like the US declaration of independence.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/ [2] http://www.businessinsider.com/designed-by-apple-in-californ... [3] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ap-manife... [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%E2%80%93Einstein_Manif... [5] http://www.un.org/en/udhrbook/pdf/udhr_booklet_en_web.pdf

I suppose that's a good approach if your aim is conformism and bland mediocrity.