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	Podcast:		WIRED Business – Spoken Edition
	Episode:		GitHub ‘Sponsors’ Now Lets Users Back Open Source Projects
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:05:20
	Publish Date:		2019-05-24 06:10:22
	Description:		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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