From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:33:18 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] RIP Robert Taylor In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20180413003318.GJ25467@mcvoy.com> On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:26:00AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote: > On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > > >Here???s the obit I wrote at the time. > >http://larry.stewart.org/2017/04/14/bob-taylor/ > > Many thanks! I love this bit: > > At Xerox, the weekly group meetings were called Dealer, as in Dealer???s > choice. The speaker set the rules. The culture was for the audience > to do their level best to challenge the ideas. Bob talked about > civility, and about the necessity of ???turning type one disagreements > into type two disagreements???. A type two disagreement is where each > party understands and can explain the position of the other. > > We can all learn something from that... Indeed. The part about fishing the recording out of the core dump was cool too. Thanks for that obit Larry, nicely done!