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• Reference Source for .NET 4.6 is relicensed under MIT;
• In the future, the framework will be open source and shipped in parts via NuGet, you can, with the application, deliver your build, which will be isolated from everything else;
• Development moves to GitHub ;
• Runtime sources will open soon, including RyuJit and garbage collection;
• For all this happiness, official support for the Nixes is planned.

Go

Go

Mono is not something that is no longer needed, in the future they will work closely with them for porting, this stack will probably be supplied as a part of Mono for some time, as far from everything is open and to complete the work you will need things from its composition.

For a snack

• New free edition of Visual Studio with support for extensions;
• Grunt, gulp and npm support from Visual Studio and ASP.NET;
• For ASP.NET will be prepared libuv server ;
• MSBuild also open. Collecting complex solo solutions on Mono should no longer suffer .

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Materials:

1. www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETAsOpenSourceNETOnMacAndLinuxAndVisualStudioCommunity.aspx
2. blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2014/11/12/net-core-is-open-source.aspx
3. www.linux.org.ru/gallery/2978937.jpg
4. tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html
5. habrahabr.ru/company/microsoft/blog/243067 (appeared later this note)
6. lists.ximian.com/pipermail/mono-devel-list/2014-November/042315.html