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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by bzbarsky on Thursday June 12, 2014 @11:59AM (#7884147)
> How can you ever implement Skype, for instance

This is why http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/webrtc.html exists.

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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by thegeomaster on Thursday June 12, 2014 @12:28PM (#7884336)
I was talking more about video encoding/decoding in real time as Skype uses a proprietary protocol and encoding scheme IIRC.
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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by sphink on Friday June 13, 2014 @04:52PM (#7890772)
That is what webrtc is for too, without the "proprietary" part.
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Re:Mozilla to sell '$25' Firefox OS smartphones in India by thegeomaster on Friday June 13, 2014 @10:07PM (#7891848)
My point exactly. Skype is a big P2P network using proprietary schemes for just about everything. They don't seem eager to interoperate with open standards in the slightest.
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