<flame war ahead>
For those not adicted to slashdot, see here
<http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/02/04/0332238/microsoft-open-sources-coreclr-the-net-execution-engine>
.
Licenced under MIT
<https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/LICENSE.TXT>, plus an
additional patents promise
<https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/blob/master/PATENTS.TXT>.
If Microsoft continues to go in the direction of the OSS as before, I
suspect we just might benefit from some good quality components as
individual services on a completelly open source stack.