Austrailian Echoes

Would you like a fork, sir?  It looks like the Echo2 community has finally made that option a reality with the Cooee project.  Cooee (an Austrailian "Over here!",  of sorts) is being put forth by Karora, an open source group with routes in Melbourne.  The "openness" of the Echo2 project under the guidance of NextApp has been questioned by the user community for some time now.

I am, personally, torn on this issue.  I empathize with the issues raised by Karora.  I think that the leadership of the Echo2 project have given the community the impression of being forsaken or, worse yet, irrelevant.  However, I am still a little unsure of the timing.  Echo seems to be on the verge of a fairly major release and I can't help but wonder if waiting for that code to surface might have been worth it.  What is done is done, however and Karora can always spend some time merging code. :)

I want to wish the best of luck to the core Karora team in gaining acceptance as well as momentum.  A little competition never hurts...

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