A new group set up to advance the cause of free and open source software has decided to recruit socialite Paris Hilton into its ranks as a means to gain more exposure.
The Open Source Development League said it was recruiting Ms Hilton because it knew of nobody else who had managed to gain such a degree of exposure despite having no apparent learning in this direction.
“What she managed to do with that video was amazing. If that wasn’t enough, then there was the mobile phone address book episode,” Jeremy Bleats, the chief executive officer of the League, told a crowded media conference on the banks of the Yarra in Melbourne early today.
Bleats said the only thing that was holding back Linux and other software of the FOSS genre was a lack of exposure. “People should be aware of the breadth and scope of what FOSS has to offer and Ms Hilton can definitely advance that objective,” he said. “She can expose things like nobody else can.”
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