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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by megaman821 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @11:13AM (#8596220)
I don't think they are open sourcing the client libraries like WPF and Win Forms. Like you are alluding to, what good would it do if they did since it is 99% Windows only functions in there.

They are open-sourcing the server side code. I think this means your ASP.Net apps can run on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX all from the same open source code base. No worry about Mono incompatibilities and bugs.

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Re:Microsoft takes .NET open source and cross-platform by Someone1234 on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @11:20AM (#8596275)
> I don't think they are open sourcing the client libraries like WPF and Win Forms.

I didn't allude to that.

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