At Last! Microsoft Releases .NET as Open Source

It's big news for .NET where, on top of the release of .NET 2015 Preview, Microsoft has announced that .NET is entering a new era as it becomes open source as a core principal, enabling .NET applications to run on multiple operating systems. 

As part of .NET 2015 Preview, Microsoft is delivering .NET Core 5, which is a completely open source stack and can run on multiple operating systems. Microsoft is only contributing .NET Core 5 to the .NET Foundation and will openly collaborate with the community to ensure a strong relationship with existing .NET open source communities, in particular the Mono community. 

The announcement was made at the Connect(); event and includes these highlights:

- .NET Core 5 is open source on GitHub

- Microsoft will support .NET Core 5 on Windows, Linux and Mac

- Microsoft has contributed .NET Core 5 to the .NET Foundation

- .NET Framework 4.6 reference source now uses the MIT license

- Renewed collaboration with the Mono Project

Microsoft has released a mountain of information around this announcement and instead of regurgitating it to you here, go to these links for more info:

- Announcing .NET 2015 Preview: A New Era for .NET 

- The .NET Core is Open Source

- The .NET Core project under the stewardship of the .NET Foundation

- GitHub repository contains the foundational libraries that make up the .NET Core development stack

- Introducing the Visual Studio 2015 Preview for C

Read more: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/vstudio/aa496123

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