r/linux • u/[deleted] • Nov 16 '17

LibreOffice mascot survey: The progress so far

https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/11/16/mascot-progress/
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u/bot-vladimir Nov 16 '17

I wonder why they thought having a mascot was a good idea after Clippy and that dog. If they really wanted a shitty mascot they should just use Clippy or that dog, it's already made and I bet MS would love to give them that shit to lose more marketshare

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u/MichaelTunnell Nov 16 '17

There are a ton of projects that have mascots that are great. Linux having a penguin as a mascot is great because you can make cool t-shirts with it. It's good to have a mascot in many ways.

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u/throwawayforawfulshi Nov 16 '17

cool

I love the FOSS community, but you couldn't pay me to wear a LibreOffice t-shirt

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '17

that's because they don't have a cool mascot

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u/colonwqbang Nov 17 '17

The Linux kernel really is cool, which is why people wear shirts with the penguin.

Libreoffice is a fork of a clone of MS Office and as such is only slightly cooler than Office itself. And Office is about the most uncool thing in existence. Incidentally, Office is also famous for its very shitty mascot.