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One should note that this is the "new" ASP.NET. The old version, the one explicitly tied to IIS, is not and will probably never be open source software.

They're building a new stack from the ground up. Which is the only way, really, to make it "cross platform".

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The old one was open sourced a couple months (years?) back and is on CodePlex. http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/

Not quite: that's "ASP.NET MVC", the razor view engine, "web pages", and some other libraries like Entity Framework and SignalR. Technically these are just libraries built on the closed-source ASP.NET stack, colloquially known as System.Web, which is essentially IIS.

It's at least available to view the source:

http://referencesource.microsoft.com/System.Web/xsp/system/W...

That's not open-source.

In ASP.NET vNext, there is no System.Web any more. They have broken the core into separate components, and their source is in the OP link.

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