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 This repository began as a GitHub fork of
-[joyent/node](https://github.com/joyent/node) where contributions,
-releases, and contributorship are under an
+[joyent/node](https://github.com/joyent/node).
+io.js contributions, releases, and contributorship are under an
 [open governance model](./CONTRIBUTING.md#governance).
-
 We intend to land, with increasing regularity, releases which are
 compatible with the npm ecosystem that has been built to date for node.js.