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The American company swallows the smallest developer GitHub.
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BrusselsThe European Commission has authorized Microsoft to take control of the popular GitHub software development platform. Antitrust supervisory bodies in Brussels see no loss of competition and approved the merger Friday without conditions. The Commission also decided that Microsoft would not be encouraged to change the open nature of the GitHub platform. The acquisition is Redmond's software company with a total value of $ 7.5 billion (approximately € 6.4 billion).
GitHub is an open platform where more than 1.8 million companies and development teams have worked on joint projects. Users include heavyweights such as Google, SAP and IBM. Above all, Microsoft boss Satya Nadella was credited with convincing the developer community of the takeover. Its predecessor, Steve Ballmer, had always described open source software as devil's work.
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