GitHub Sponsors. Sponsors, which debuts in beta today, manifests on the frontend as a Sponsor button at the top of repositories containing a .github/FUNDING.yml file in the master branch.

GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button Steve Ballmer spent years hating on open source software. Satya Nadella recognized that the service has become indispensable to programmers.

GitHub introduces “Sponsors” button, allowing users to donate money to open-source contributors by Tom Krazit on May 23, 2019 at 7:04 am May 23, 2019 at 7:38 am Share 45 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

More specifically, GitHub says it will now handle what is called the FIDO Universal 2nd Factor, or U2F, specification. Google and Yubico, maker of the YubiKey, have shared the key's underlying ...