GitHub ‘Sponsors’ Now Lets Users Back Open Source Projects
GitHub ‘Sponsors’ Now Lets Users Back Open Source Projects
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
May 24, 20195m 26s
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Last year, Microsoft paid $7.5 billion to buy GitHub, the online home of thousands of open source software projects that power apps and sites ranging from Facebook to Walmart.com. The acquisition, along with IBM's $34 billion purchase of open source company Red Hat, proved that open source software can be big business. That's a little surprising since, by definition, open source code can be freely shared by anyone.
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