I'm nearly certain that is a default message included in a lot of .bashrc files. I've seen it on Debian and Ubuntu. I agree with his criticism but certainly not with how he conveyed it. I love colour :)
I like how color looks for a short time but when working all day in vim I find I think better with just two colors and no syntax. I think I just got used to that in shell .. but then I do like the link/executable highlights... Maybe I'm missing a huge world of color in bash prompt... I just don't know how to do it, or do it well...haha. Wanna spruce up my prompt? ;P :) you're welcome to submit if you want, a change :)
Yeah I regretted it after posting, haha, but I'll stick to my word, I think I might prefer my prompt and get sick of the color so I'll add some optionality.