When you talk about a major economic development like this, you'll attract a lot of players. Politics will play a role, too.

So, the footprint is small and a lot of the area is still available to others.

We sent off a letter of interest, not a binding contract. First, we have to get our foot in the door and show we're interested.

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

The Governor has had four years to clean up pay-to-play politics in Illinois. He hasn't done it. The U.S. Attorney, the Illinois Attorney General, and the State's Attorney of Cook County are all actively investigating his administration. Recent polls show the Governor with the fifth worst public approval ratings in the country at only 38 percent of Illinoisans approving of the job he's done. The same polls have him losing the general election to the Republicans.

I also don't necessarily like DRM myself. But…I'm an 'Oppenheimer,' and I refuse to play politics with Linux, and I think you can use Linux for whatever you want to–which very much includes things I don't necessarily personally approve of.