The European Commission has formally approved its acquisition GitHub from Microsoft, stating that there is no sign that the latter will "undermine the open nature" of the service.
Microsoft earlier announced 2018 that it would buy GitHub for 7,5 billions of dollars and promised to let the company work independently.
Of course there have been a lot of concerns about Microsoft's involvement in GitHub, and some developers have decided to leave the service, moving their projects to alternatives platforms.
However, Microsoft underlined and GitHub and itself will evolve together without affecting the platform's culture but making changes that will improve the existing approach.
The EU has found that the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft will not affect its competitors, so it can take place. The press release he says:
The European Commission has approved, under EU regulation, Microsoft's proposed acquisition of GitHub. The Commission concluded that effective competition would continue in the relevant markets and that Microsoft has no incentive to undermine the open nature of GitHub's platform.
The market investigation has confirmed that Microsoft will not have the necessary power in the market to undermine the openness of GitHub at the expense of the corresponding DevOps competing tools and cloud services. This is because such behavior would reduce the value of GitHub for developers who are willing and able to switch to other platforms.
Microsoft is today the largest partner of GitHub among the other major technology companies that also use the service. These include Apple and Google. Google even asked Microsoft to maintain the GitHub culture and not to implement controversial changes.
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