There is alot of excitement in the open source community about the emerging WebRTC standard that will enable browsers to become full real-time communications tools.
It’s important to remember though that there are other open source tools and efforts that are already somewhat mature to enable open source real time communications via a browser. Though OpenMeetings (unlike WebRTC which is plug-in free) can and does benefit from the use of plugins (esp SWF/Flash).
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