• Google wants to free the airwaves. The FCC is about to decide what to do with all the leftover radio white space, and this petition/drive could influence the decision. Check it out.
• And speaking of radio, it looks like some of the predicted results of the copyright fees levied on internet radio stations are about to come to pass. Wired is reporting that Pandora is near-failing, with almost 70% of their profits going to pay the fees. Sad news.
• We would be remiss without at least one Olympics-related item. So, here’s your obligitory gold-medal geek moment: the Wall Street Journal investigates how the DiveCam follows the athletes from platform take-off to splash-down. How does it work? The simple answer… is gravity. Mmmmm, physics.
• Last week brought news of a a legal win for open source licenses. See what the Red Hat legal team had to say about the ruling as well.

• Red Hat’s channel is a “multi-billion dollar opportunity” (Matt Asay for CNet)
• Sun’s Barton George talks to Max Spevack
• Geek of the week: Linus Torvalds
• How software piracy hurts open source
• Veteran developer ditches Microsoft for open source

• The Free Software Foundation listed a much-linked-to list of 5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G, which led to articles like “Does open source have a new villain?” And along with a lot of customers, Lifehacker’s Gina Trapani sat on the fence between Freedom and iPhoneLove.
• First Radiohead joined the pay-what-you-wish club with the release of In Rainbows. Now they’re inviting you to play with their latest video.
• Event: OSCON is happening in Portland next week. Visit the Fedora booth.
• John Halamka, one of the keynote speakers at last month’s Red Hat Summit, wrote an interesting post about open source medical records.
• Not open source, but still interesting: Five ways technology will change the Beijing Olympics

Also just in from the Red Hat News blog: One of our legal counsel penned a reader’s guide to the Firestar settlement. Totally worth reading if you’re at all interested in IP, licensing, and–in particular–the defensibility of the GPL.

• Ever wanted to automate your home? Ever wondered if you could do so with open source tools? Wired tells you how.
• And of course we couldn’t miss this: The announcement that Microsoft is adding ODF support to Office. The great irony? Office doesn’t support OOXML, their proposed “standard.”
• A fun article on Digital image forensics from Scientific American.
• Also, a note of good news from a contemporary: Cory Doctorow’s new book Little Brother has been on the NYT best-seller list for 4 weeks in a row. This is the first creative commons-licensed novel to afford that honor. Congrats, Cory!
• More from Germany: Max Spevack’s last LinuxTag post.

And, dear readers, if you have a minute? We’d love for you to pick your favorite talks from our upcoming Summit schedule. Let us know what content you’d most like to see, so we know what to video-tape while we’re there.

We also wanted to pass along what’s up with on another voice that’s been quiet of late–former Fedora Project Leader Max Spevack. His travels have landed him in his new home/office, but this week he’s off at LinuxTag. You can follow his adventures in Germany at his blog, and see pictures of the event here or here. (He promises to post some pictures later.)

And if you’re ever curious about what many of our developers, Fedora project members, and other assorted geeky friends are up to? Add planet.fedoraproject.org to your blogroll. You won’t be sorry.

The sci-fi and fantasy worlds must have been busy on the web this week, because that’s what’s been catching our eyes.

• Have you ever wished you could play Lego Star Wars while it was being projected from a mobile R2D2 who could also dock your iPod? Now you can.
• Comic book superhero Iron Man is on the side of… proprietary software? “According to series writer Matt Fraction, the battle between Tony Stark and new bad guy Ezekiel Stane is really just an allegory for the battle Bill Gates wages against smaller software providers every single day of his life.”
• Would you rather read more about Tron Guy than Paris Hilton? ROFLCon, held a couple of weekends ago, describes itself as “a group dissection of internet culture.” The io9 blog poses it as “the future of celebrity.” Wired has a photo gallery from the event.

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