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 ## Introduction
 
 Minio is an open source object storage released under [Apache license v2](./LICENSE) . It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.
-Minio's design was inspired by Amazon's S3 for its API and Facebook's Haystack for its immutable data structure.
+Minio's design is inspired by Amazon's S3 for its API and Facebook's Haystack for its immutable data structure.
 
 ### Build Minio from Source