[ywecur]

Ok, so is there anything NOT being open sourced?

Is everything needed to actually be able to use it productively open source now?

Is Xamarin Studio open source?

[mandeepj]

No, Xamarin Studio is not getting open sourced.

For more details, you can listen to this podcast from founders of Xamarin - http://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1276

[ywecur]

Is it possible to use it without it?

[jstedfast]

You don't need to use an IDE in order to write Xamarin.iOS or Android apps. You can just use a text editor (although Xamarin Studio is free).

The MSBuild logic, at least for Xamarin.Mac and Xamarin.iOS has been made completely open source, so all the logic to build your apps + the SDKs are all open source.

[donniefitz2]

With Xamarin, you can use it with both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio. I believe XS is free now and you can get VS Community for free too.

[pritambaral]

But not under Linux. XS is available only for Mac, and VS is Windows-only (of course).

[misterbwong]

I believe you can code in xamarin (for free) using visual studio 2015

[mandeepj]

Of course, you can use it. Tools are under products at http://open.xamarin.com/

Microsoft has not open sourced Visual studio (VS) so similarly they will not open source Xamarin. You can also use .net framework without using VS. Just use command line tools

[ashitlerferad]

RoboVM will not be open sourced, only killed.