For those who like links http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6541/is_3_72/ai_n29429854/ , look under the section "Campaign Contributions"

For the most part, I believe herb Kohl funds his campaigns out of his own pocket (one of the perks of having a net worth of more than $200 million). Claiming that he's shaking down Google just doesn't fly. Unlike like our governor, Senator Kohl is an upstanding guy.

Actually SLS should be near the top of the "Old School" list, the buggy older brother of Slackware.

I for one, don't really miss the 'good old days' of downloading 28 or so floppies of SLS over a 14k modem, only to find that disk 7 has a error when you're attempting an install. Or working days on writing and tweaking an xconfig file. I admit, the excitement of running this 'cool new OS' is gone, but it is infinitely more usable so now I can actually get my work done.

I couldn't agree with you more. I'm in the process of implementing a Coraid SR-1520 and have been amazed by the results so far. The ease of setup, the flexibility of the raid configuration not to mention the performance. After running some Bonnie++ tests, I was shocked to find out that my >$1 per GB box was out performing my much more expensive EMC Clariion CX500 by a substantial amount. And with the hotspare cabability .... Let's just say I was orignally going use this for disk based backups. Now I can see this expanding way beyond just backups.