I heard about NEM months and months ago, where is it? Over and over people say it's coming soon... it seems to be standing still which is a bit disturbing.
It can't be that hard to make a NXT clone with the source code out months ago... what's taking so long?
Because NEM isn't NXT clone. It's planned and written from beginning. It's easy to copypaste Bitcoin so people are accustomed (and convinced that it's easy task) to fast coin release. Even BCNext wrote NXT in months and revealed his plans just before launch (2 months before?), more over NXT in it launch day was far from being finished. So give it a time. Great (and secure) things doesn't just pop up from one day to another.