Comment by SXX
6 hours ago
Durov was smart enough to let community build open source clients and use them. And to make internally built clients open source.
6 hours ago
Durov was smart enough to let community build open source clients and use them. And to make internally built clients open source.
That's not it. I believe all the clients were built by employees. What he did was give each client to a very small, experienced team.
Most people use official clients and AFAIK they don't really accept any external contributions? All clients were fully developed by employees.