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Not sure what you are looking for or mean by 'fully open source'. The .NET Framework libraries are open source, ASP.NET is open source, the C# compiler itself is closed is closed but it is an ECMA standard and there are open source implementations of it.

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They're only open source in the sense you can view them, but you definitely cannot do anything with them, edit them, compile them, etc (from what i can determine). Its purely for reference, not use.

Can you show me the last C# ecma spec?

As far as I can see, the ECMA spec only goes to 2.0:

http://csharpindepth.com/articles/chapter1/Specifications.as...

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