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by Joe Shelby.
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The name, not the concept and effort. Just this month, a company released an OpenSource (LGPL) product named Echo, at 1.0 (http://www.nextapp.com/products/echo/). I personally think using that name in such a broad effort should be avoided that because right now, they're losing all their marketting on the name. The amount of links and discussion going on with the RSS-replacement effort is going to quickly overwhelm it both in Google and in Java-specific places like JavaBlogs. Given that the p