I meant it jokingly. It's a brilliant advertisement, to be sure; I think that most people just see things like that as done strictly out of the goodness of people's hearts, and while that may often be true, I usually am inclined to believe the more self-serving aspect of it.
Not that there's anything wrong with it whatsoever.
What better way to show your skills to people who would contract you than to point at something as popular as his icon set?