20k+ lines of wave protocol code released today (wave federation day)

Awesome. Maybe someone will make a good desktop client for Wave, which if you ask me, is needed for it to replace email.

Interesting. Is this at the point where one could just buy a slice, run a server, and play around with the client or is Google holding some piece back until they open up their implementation to the public?

<a href="http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation</a> instructions just went online

Is it me or 20k+ lines for a protocol implementation sounds like an over engineered system which is bound to fail?

I hear people saying oh great that will replace eMail.. don't think so. M$ and others tried that and failed, why should it be different now? Google will try to keep a crucial piece of the pie like M$ does with the .NET platform.