{"id":6155,"date":"2018-10-22T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=6155"},"modified":"2018-10-22T15:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T12:49:29","slug":"eu-has-approved-microsofts-7-5-billion-github-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/22\/eu-has-approved-microsofts-7-5-billion-github-acquisition\/","title":{"rendered":"EU has approved Microsoft\u2019s $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s upcoming $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub has cleared another major hurdle: the EU has approved the deal after determining that there are no antitrust concerns in Microsoft buying the popular open-source software repository, via the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>European antitrust authorities have reportedly determined that \u201cthe merged entity would continue to face significant ongoing competition from other players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officials also aren\u2019t concerned that Microsoft could \u201cundermine the open nature of GitHub,\u201d noting that developers have other options they could switch to if Microsoft\u2019s stewardship of the platform isn\u2019t to their liking.<\/p>\n<p>The GitHub purchase was first announced in June this year, with CEO Satya Nadella commenting at the time,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to being stewards of the GitHub community, which will retain its developer-first ethos, operate independently and remain an open platform.<\/p>\n<p>We will always listen to developer feedback and invest in both fundamentals and new capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>theverge.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s upcoming $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub has cleared another major hurdle: the EU has approved the deal after determining that there are no antitrust concerns in Microsoft buying the popular open-source software repository, via the Financial Times. European antitrust authorities have reportedly determined that \u201cthe merged entity would continue to face significant ongoing competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":6157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6158,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6155\/revisions\/6158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}