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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by ronilan on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:19PM (#21446024)
> The biggest limitation of the current Sponsors implementation is that only individuals can become sponsors.

Interesting.

Wonder what was github thinking around this. Seems backwards. Stripe should be your sponsor not Patrick.

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Re:GitHub Sponsors is now out of beta in 30 countries by dantiberian on Monday November 04, 2019 @03:39PM (#21446241)
It's a good question, GitHub posted an FAQ a few months ago and talked about this a little bit: https://github.blog/2019-06-12-faq-with-the-github-sponsors-...

> Today’s GitHub Sponsors is just the first step, and we plan to extend the types of sponsorships it supports.

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