GitHub launches Sponsors, a way to pay your favorite developers

[Windows Central]

[h=2]What you need to know[/h]

• GitHub Sponsors lets you give money to the developers upong whose open source projects you rely.
• The program launches today in beta.
• Microsoft and GitHub have started a matching fund, which will see the companies match up to $5,000 in donations in the first year. GitHub also won't charge fees for the first year.

GitHub today launched a fresh way for developers to monetize their work on open source projects.

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