Status: Hoax
LaMa gave me a heads up about a hoax circulating through the open source community. I'll let him describe it in his own words:
"How do you hoax the geeks behind the open Source movement and the ICT web press? Yep: with a hot blonde and some photoshop...
All over the geek Blogging world, posts started to appear last week that the Mozilla Foundation, the guys behind amongst others the increasingly popular Open Source webbrowser Firefox and e-mail client Thunderbird, had struck a deal with hot blonde Scandinavian photo model Alexandra Ansgar to promote their product Firefox (just Google her name and you'll get plenty of hits). The news items were accompanied by a picture where this Alexandra posed in a seductive top printed with the Firefox logo (attached).
![image](https://hoaxes.org/images/hoaxblog/angsar.jpg)
But it was a hoax. The photo [left] is a photoshopped version of the second attached picture [right].
In fact "Scandinavian top model Alexandra Ansgar" does not exist at all. The name is made up, it is the name of a Hotel in Copenhagen. The picture of the blonde is lifted from a softporn site, www.emy18.com.
Apparently the photoshopped picture emerged on April 29th as a geeky joke, not a hoax attempt, on a Portuguese language weblog:
http://kaylee.weblog.com.pt/
From there, the picture was taken over by a few other bloggers.
It then seems that on June 11th, www.gadgetizer.com elaborated the picture into a hoax, inventing "Scandinavian model Alexandra Ansgar" and the story about the deal with the Mozilla Foundation:
http://www.gadgetizer.com/2006/06/11/new-firefox-mascot-alexandra-ansgar/
From there, it spread over the internet, the story being taken for real and cvered by a number of Geek/ICT sites (you'll find enough of them when you Google "Alexandra Ansgar").
- Marco ("LaMa")
Alexandra Ansgar kind of reminds me of the Dusty girl.
Comments
And I bet you this pctuure now is the wallpaper of many a (male) Firefox fan out there...
And I admitt: I brought the story under Alex's attention just to have some eye candy on the site again.... 😛
http://www.dustybrand.com/desktops.asp
...you're welcome.
http://www.gadgetizer.com/2006/06/16/firefox-mascot-hoax-alexandra-ansgar/
The Alexandra Ansgar name is not suppose to be related with the hotel in Copenhag, it's just a coincidence.
Ass: the hoax creater from gadgetizer
That's probably because neither of 'em know their own shirt sizes.
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