> Telegram has now joined the club of the apps that have... Telegram's client app is Free Software, they actually provide an API, and third party clients are p

> Telegram has now joined the club of the apps that have... Telegram's client app is Free Software, they actually provide an API, and third party clients are permitted, so I think it's in a rather different club here. I think it'd be fairer to frame this as a requirement of their network and network service, rather than their app.