Still trying to figure out why they want it? What's the end goal?
How you feel about it likely depends on whether your an optimist or a pessimists.

jimbo45 said:

Hi there

Not sure if the EU commission is the correct or even competent entity to deal with this type of question -- what about users in non EU countries (sorry Brits -- NOT getting into BREXIT discussion here - not the time, place or correct forum for that).

My worry here is that on GitHub there is a huge amount of source code on it - very useful also for developers.

I just wonder whether Ms will still keep it open, accessible and free and also not "filch" eiher directly or indirectly source code which it can later incorporate into its own commercial (i.e non open source) products.

I wonder also whether Linux developers / downloaders will be disadvantaged with Ms's take over of GitHub.

For those of us who use it it's a great service - I'm not sure whether Ms is the right entity to guarantee its independence -- reminds me of that old saying of The Fox guarding the Henhouse.

Cheers
jimbo

You do tend to meander.. but I agree overall - MS has become more open-sourced-minded of late, either way they don't own the code, so no harm done.