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Re:CoreCLR is now open source by logn on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @11:54PM (#8995371)
OpenJDK is unofficially ported and built for numerous platforms. But OpenJDK is Oracle's JDK. To contribute to it, you sign Oracle's contributor's license agreement.

Oracle's no golden example as a leader in open source (let alone libre software), but they demonstrate the probable trajectory for the Microsoft projects at this point: a healthy, cohesive community of developers (developers!) using the technology in an ever increasing number of projects and platforms.

Re:CoreCLR is now open source by pjmlp on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @04:17AM (#8995961)
> But OpenJDK is Oracle's JDK

Not quite. There is some code that isn't the same due to license agreements with third parties.

Some JavaFX components are an example thereof.

There are also some enterprise features there are only available in the Oracle JVM version, in terms of security and monitoring.