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- [Instructor] There are a lot of open source projects available on GitHub, including from Microsoft. I thought for this demonstration, we could fork one of Microsoft's repositories. So I did a search for Microsoft here, and there's a lot of choices, but the one I want to use is this one for their editor, this VS Code editor. So click on this link, and then on this page, you can read about the repository. So I can see this has got an MIT license, it's got 1000 contributors, it's got 350 branches, and it's got 56,000 commits. I see that the last commit was about an hour ago. And then in the community area, I can see there's 3000 people watching this project or this repository, 85000 stars, and what's important for us is the fork button, and there's approximately 12 and a half thousand forks of this. And to make your own fork, you just have to click on this button. After a few seconds, it'll switch you over to…

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