Reminds me of Hilketa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_On_(novel)

I retired because I was turning 70. There have been comments about age discrimination in "resource actions" at the company where I worked for over 34 years, but my impression was that it was more "senior employee discrimination". I.e. the longer you work in a place, the more connections you have and therefore the more "dotted line" or "implicit" obligations you have that never show up on performance plans/evaluations or at least are more difficult to quantify. Anyway, I had held on long enough.

As others have pointed out Groklaw provided ongoing coverage of SCO vs the universe matters until August, 2013. At that point PJ gave up the ghost and quit running Groklaw. Groklaw's SCO vs IBM timeline continued to be updated with documents, including the summary judgement decision that was just overturned and returned to the district court for trial. That opinion has a decent history of the case with regards to SCO's only remaining claim against IBM.

FORTRAN course in high school in 1963 (high school did not offer it, dedicated teacher took two of us to an early morning vocational school), and then CORC in 1964, required course for 1st year engineering students.

Full text (PDF) of the Amicus Brief is worth reading and not that long. Excerpts "The Eastern District has adopted certain procedural rules that benefit patent owners—particularly those with weak patents and no products—to the detriment of small innovators and those accused of infringement. These rules drive up costs to defendants and work to increase settlement pressure untethered to the merits of a particular claim for patent infringement." and "These rules, although facially neutral, give significant advantages to patent owners with minimal assets, dubious patents or infringement claims, or a goal of extracting undeserved settlements."

Longer piece on same topic for different audience in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Consider dogs (all breeds derived from wolves several thousand years ago) and foxes http://cbsu.tc.cornell.edu/ccgr/behaviour/Index.htm the genetic basis has been studied and similar studies have been done on other domestic animals. The chicken http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junglefowl This type of "evolution" is really just exploitation of existing genetic variation within a species.