Hey guys, we don't know for sure that release is being delayed because of Mambo, or did I miss something?
Regardless, why wouldn't support for Mambo be a good thing? CB is a tool, a piece of software, and for software to be successful it has to have the broadest user base possible.
You cut Mambo out of the picture (and I don't contend it will never happen), then think of the potential audience, the potential 3PD's and other goodies that we might miss out on.
Heck, if you could install CB on a dead badger, I'd say it'd be worth a couple of days of delay.
www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml