AFP Out Of Date In OS X Lion

sphardy wrote:
Neither has any other vendor guaranteed every model of NAS they produce will have upgraded AFP support for Lion

No, of course. But I wasn't commenting about general policies, just considering probabilities - it sounds like NV+ maybe reaching point where it is no longer going to be updated, which would have implications for what we do.

Regarding your other points - I'm not sure that it is always clear that Open Source provides a better solution than commercial software, nor am I convinced that commercial organisations relying on open source solutions to provide key features within their products is always in the customer's best interests. It is not obvious, for example, that the general solutions being promoted by Netatalk's commercial bits (industrial scale AFP solutions for big servers) are likely to inspire development of code that runs well on stripped down low power linux boxes and does just enough to support AFP over a small network. But if Netatalk project doesn't deliver the necessary code, potentially a raft of products will become unusable. Won't be Netatalk projects' fault if that happens, but a big headache for many all the same.

And for the avoidance of doubt (and to hopefully stop more statements of the obvious) I understand we're talking about issues with pre-release software etc. etc. One point of pre-release software is to give opportunities to work out issues that need to be fixed before the stuff is released. So some discussion about these issues needs to happen somehow (without infringing NDAs etc.). But of course YMMV