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 Minio is an open source object storage released under Apache license v2.
 
 It uses ``Rubberband Erasure`` coding to dynamically protect the data.
-Minio's was inspired by Amazon S3 API and Haystack Object Format
+Minio was inspired by Amazon S3 API and Haystack Object Format.
 
 Overview
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