[Edu-sig] Drs. Fotis Georgatos's MSc thesis

On the Page http://www.python.org/community/sigs/current/edu-sig/ Under Academic Papers there is a link to “Drs. Fotis Georgatos's MSc thesis, How applicable is Python as first computer language for teaching programming in a pre-university educational environment, from a teacher's point of view?” http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.1437.pdf On the third page of the thesis it says “Each word of this thesis is plagiarized. I have never generated a single word myself.” So is this a real thesis? Was he making a joke? Is the link supposed to be a Joke? I’m asking since I quoted it twice and then someone asked me the same question.