Paris Hilton Recruited to Publicize Linux 438
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'."
Paris Hilton has some geek cred (Score:4, Interesting)
On her appearance on Saturday Night Live, she did a fake commercial for a geek-oriented phone sex line. She dressed up in a hat & huge scarf and made various Doctor Who references.
After that, i have now officially seen everything on TV. Nothing could ever top such an obscure reference than that. Closest was the cast of AbFab showing up on an episode of Roseanne.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, 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.
Re:Like (Score:5, Interesting)
No shit, man. Isn't the really cleverness of April Fool's jokes in the subtlety of their presentation? The best ones are plausible falsehoods slipped in amongst the real thing. But not on /., of course. No, here we get to endure 24 hours of the Worst Jokes Ever, each one dumber that the last. Wait, I got some news story ideas guys! "Disney buys the ISS"! "Microsoft releases WinNT source"! "Linux cancelled forever"! Those are GREAT! HAHAHAHAHA!!
Re:Like (Score:2, Interesting)
Didn't you know? Real geek news takes a worldwide holiday on April 1 so slashdot can spew out tired jokes. Funny, I don't see any 'real' news sites making April Fools jokes beyond a story or editorial.
Re:In other news... (Score:5, Interesting)
She's not just rich, she's damn rich. She also plays the part of being mentally handicapped quite well. In truth, I suspect she's quite smart and a ridiculously hard worker. You just can't be an idol to teens if you're way over their head and too normal to get attention. Perhaps some of us could even take a lesson, and learn to compromise some ego in return for some finacial success. Well, not me, but other people.
Always no-reg (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:*Yawn* (Score:3, Interesting)