Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRTC implementation

Re:Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRT... by fenesiistvan on Thursday October 02, 2014 @05:48AM (#8400034)

They open it after all the other browser vendors are already done with this task. Why haven't they released it from the very beginning, saving a few days work-time for others? I think that now it has almost zero value.

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Re:Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRT... by dsr_ on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:36AM (#8400148)

I think there's a significant amount of value in having multiple independent implementations, especially when they are open-sourced and can borrow from as well as compete against each other. See, for example, OpenSSL/LibreSSL/GNUtls.

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Re:Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRT... by kalleboo on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:46AM (#8400168)

The README states the focus isn't on browsers

> OpenWebRTC is built on the belief that the WebRTC standard would transcend the pure browser environment and that native apps, implementing the same protocols and API's, would become an important part of the WebRTC ecosystem

and it has out of the box platform support for iOS and Android

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Re:Ericsson open-sources OpenWebRTC, rival to Google’s WebRT... by pigubrco on Thursday October 02, 2014 @08:45AM (#8400491)

Here is a link on how to build a native Android WebRTC sample app: https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/source/browse/trunk/talk/ex...

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