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Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-nicole-ritchie-is-the-cool-one dept.

lamasquerade writes "Paris Hilton has been named by the Open Source Development Legue as their next recruit in a bid to gain maximum exposure for FOSS. The new Legue's CEO, Jeremy Bleats, noted that the length of Ms Hilton's legs were a great factor in the decision and was sure to deny any links to The Red-Headed Legue. Richard Stallman was quick to label the activity a 'cheap stunt'."

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  1. Re:In other news... by dedeman · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I didn't laugh at this, I would mod it +1 interesting.
    How many young girls might be in the market to buy a computer, if for nothing else then to IM, and either wouldn't care, or wouldn't know, the difference between eye candy windows or eye candy linux. They might just be the only demographic to judge a disto based on it's "cuteness" factor.
    And I promise that this is not a shameless ploy to make linux geeks attractive in the eyes of 16+ yr old girls. It would be interesting to see linux take a larger market share through the efforts of promoting itself to high school/college age chicks.