However let me share my experience in a fab automation software company in Phoenix, AZ.
80% of programming staff in this company are Agrawals and Patels from Gujarat state in India.
They are using CORBA (ORBIX) for IPC (Inter Process Communication) on Solaris platform and
they created a number of irrational config files for their software product.
The management and customers are completely confused about these config files and totally locked-in to these programmers.
I'm not sure it matters if he was layed off or fired. If someone is capable of getting angry enough to kill people (either random killings or targeted) the perspective of how/why they became unemployed may not matter much from the killer's perspective. I'm no expert in such edge case mental instability. I just think that when people get that far over the edge, their irrationally doesn't factor in the predicates in the same way as the rest of us.
