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Jonathan Rosenberg
Personal blog · jdrosen.net/blogsystemshistory
Jonathan Rosenberg's personal blog at jdrosen.net covers systems and history. Since 2012, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The only comment is on a Microsoft and Skype WebRTC article, not on this blog's writing. It discusses the Opus codec, WebRTC as an open standard, and Skype's acquisition.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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What Hacker News says?
The article misses out that Skype also provided Opus codec: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-codec-opus . But apart from that WebRTC is supposed to be an open standard and Mozilla and Google are already implementing it. So Microsoft not doing it would be quite risky for them. It is perhaps the reason why they bought Skype in the first place. Also since being acquired (as stated in the article) Skype has been pr…
Comment linking /
on “Microsoft bets on WebRTC for Skype’s browser future”Submitted 20 Years of SIP – A Retrospective as a story · 89 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Beginners Guide to VoIP (PPT) as a story · 2 points
HN discussion