Dear design team,
I'll try to keep this brief. I'm severely disappointed with your "mascot
contest." I was hoping that LibreOffice might come out of it with a new,
unique, representative mascot that the community could use for
everything LibreOffice. As such, community feedback was essential, and
you held a vote for the various mascot submissions. This was good.
Then, you arbitrarily selected some of the submissions and rejected the
rest for a second round.
You selected:
- A copyright infringement penguin (you redacted this later, but this
is a mistake no one should ever make)
- A bunch of faceless hummingbirds (since when did those count as
mascots?)
- Literally the Duolingo owl (trademark infringement much? seriously!)
- etc
These were selected over characters that professional artists put hours
and hours of effort into, and which I'm sure were voted higher in the
initial round than these abysmal choices. The fact that you refuse to
release the vote results further confirms this suspicion.
Anyway, I think you need to stop what you're doing and hold a new vote.
With far more transparency this time.
At the very least, the entire design team owes Tyson Tan an enormous
apology for dismissing his professional work in favor of literal
copyright infringement. I hope at least you have the common morality to
do that.
No thanks,
- Former LibreOffice User (I uninstalled your software on Wednesday)
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