[libreoffice-design] Mascot contest considered harmful

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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