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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by ravel-bar-foo on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:25AM (#29594339)
At this point, would it even hurt TikTok to open source their code? The network effect and user profiles are their moat, not their codebase.
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by dodgepong on Friday December 17, 2021 @12:09PM (#29595026)
If the app includes ByteDance's proprietary BVC1 or BVC2 encoders, it's possible those would have to be open-sourced.
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by jackTheMan on Friday December 17, 2021 @11:37AM (#29594522)
if they remove all surveillance stuff.. maybe not
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Re:TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS by hkalbasi on Friday December 17, 2021 @01:52PM (#29596577)
Isn't (important part of) surveillance stuff on the server side?
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