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Reading that again made me wonder who Brett Glass was. Apparently, I wasn't the only one:

http://www.quora.com/Hacker-Culture/Who-was-Brett-Glass-as-n...

Brett Glass himself shows up to answer.

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Fixed link: http://www.quora.com/Hacker-Culture/Who-was-Brett-Glass-as-n...

Brett Glass's statement of rebuttal here is an amusing addition to the story and worth reading (even if you probably won't be on his side).

After re-reading both accounts, it's clear to me that Brett misunderstood Poul-Henning's argument. Poul-Henning said to "just build the damn bikeshed, I don't care what color it is," whereas Brett said, "Poul-Henning's assertion that all such ideas should be dismissed as "bikeshedding" reflects this dismissive attitude"

I read Poul-Henning's argument, which did not say that ideas should be dismissed, but rather 'just built', as attempting to contribute to a constructive spirit, and Glass's argument as defending the broken management process.

Brett Glass is, of course, the patron saint of bike shedding.

He makes a pretty good case for not bothering to read his messages.

Evidently he's against net neutrality also. Cringely writes about him.

http://www.cringely.com/tag/brett-glass/

At one stage there was some uncertainty as to whether he was a bug or a feature. Apparently because FreeBSD used to have a page about him, it was decided he was a feature.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-chat/2003-March/0...

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