Apple put that in there so that they could sell more TC's. They also seem to make backwards incompatibile changes to the protocol for every OS release.
That said, the netatalk (and other vendors such as Drobo) have been pretty good at staying on top of the changes. You can safely ignore this as an issue.
Ok, cool, you worked on TM. Care to explain why Apple purposely made it difficult to setup TM using any other third party product other than a TimeCapsule?
That said, the netatalk (and other vendors such as Drobo) have been pretty good at staying on top of the changes. You can safely ignore this as an issue.