the fork of the fork of the fork
must be a rite of passage or something. some guys forked from PostNuke today to pursue a vision with less radical change (from what i can tell).To put it in other words: Encompass is a fork of PostNuke is a fork of PHP-Nuke is a fork of Thatware.
I wish them luck. Will be interesting to see how they deal with issues as their project grows. Maybe the API will stay in sync (apart from the bone of contention, templating), maybe not, hard to tell.
Its still GPL, which means they are our R&D department as much as we are theirs :)