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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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