Worst case they fail and Google buys the fiber roll-out cheap like they're doing in Provo Utah.

Pandora pays exorbitant license rates above and beyond that paid by actual FM radio broadcasters.

It may be worth it to implement a system where they transmit a custom "Radio station" and then receive it via an antenna like Aereo just to pay the radio license fees and not the streaming license fees.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_radio#US_royalty_controversy

What's happened in the past (Doom, Doom 2, etc) is that the engine source is released (which is this) and then ported/extended. You can then load in the game assets from a CD you own (wad files in the old Doom) as the format of the map files, textures, artwork, etc doesn't need to be changed. So while the assets won't be released, you could still use this to play on Linux assuming you have a legal copy of the game assets (IE own a copy of the original game). This is probably a legal grey area that hasn't been tried yet, but Disney would likely be someone to try to go after this use case.

I was all excited that the 1st generation Chromebook was an ARM processor with good battery life. I was a little disappointed with some of the other specs (screen mainly) Then they switched to Intel chips :-( Where is my full HD resolution ARM based notebook? I'm ready to get off the x86 train.