The basic point Graham is making: the US (still) have a dominant position in software, and the only way to keep that position is to open the doors for those that strengthen that position. Grahams piece is a wakeup call: the US may fall!

The author, Larry Salibra, does not imagine what the US stands to lose, he goes on talking about equal rights, citing lawyers. Yet who wants to hire experts in a foreign legal system? Very few. Likewise doctors do not form thriving multinationals worth trillions to the US. And construction workers do not show the differences in value programmers do. All his examples are flawed.

So Larry Salibra is a dangerous fool who thinks Paul Graham can't think straight. He'll gladly walk the US to its doom.