Your statistics regarding illegal aliens are completely orthogonal to the point that Stein is making. The "illegal aliens" of whom you speak, by their very definition, are people that our current immigration policies are attempting to keep out.
The "immigration policy" to which he refers is the policy towards *legal* immagrants. In other words, the U.S. has laws in place that allow X number of foreigners to immigrate into this country. Stien is complaining about the low proportion of those legal immigrants that tend to be "educated, hardworking men and women from friendly nations", as opposed to being "angry, uneducated immigrants from nations that hate us".
Look, there wouldn't even *be* a mozilla organization if it weren't for Netscape--they pay the bulk of the programmers. Don't forget that the mozilla code base went open source because the open source community (ESR, to be exact) convinced them that open source is in *netscape's* best interest. If Netscape can't get a return on their investment, you can kiss goodbye any hope of convincing other proprietary software vendors to open up their source code. And if you are really that offended, what's stopping you from using the mozilla code to create your own browser? This is open source, so scratch your own itch. Whether you use Netscape 6, Mozilla 1, or roll your own, Netscape deserves your thanks, not petty complaints.
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Your statistics regarding illegal aliens are completely orthogonal to the point that Stein is making. The "illegal aliens" of whom you speak, by their very definition, are people that our current immigration policies are attempting to keep out.
The "immigration policy" to which he refers is the policy towards *legal* immagrants. In other words, the U.S. has laws in place that allow X number of foreigners to immigrate into this country. Stien is complaining about the low proportion of those legal immigrants that tend to be "educated, hardworking men and women from friendly nations", as opposed to being "angry, uneducated immigrants from nations that hate us".
Look, there wouldn't even *be* a mozilla organization if it weren't for Netscape--they pay the bulk of the programmers. Don't forget that the mozilla code base went open source because the open source community (ESR, to be exact) convinced them that open source is in *netscape's* best interest. If Netscape can't get a return on their investment, you can kiss goodbye any hope of convincing other proprietary software vendors to open up their source code. And if you are really that offended, what's stopping you from using the mozilla code to create your own browser? This is open source, so scratch your own itch. Whether you use Netscape 6, Mozilla 1, or roll your own, Netscape deserves your thanks, not petty complaints.