I started the petition.
No Doug, LS is < HSS. Leaf shutters will never achieve the speeds that can be achieved from HSS (with the right gear of course).
And no its not a whole lotta big deal to do this. Profoto reverse engineered both the Canon and Nikon units. Rumour has it most of the others (Pentax, Sony, Olympus etc ) which have all been cracked as well.
Why the wait?
Paper work, getting all parties to sign up.
The positives for everyone are, selling more units.
The units are cast, all the moulds etc are made. Yes, pin design is different but outside of that and firmware, bingo, you're set.
Stop being haters, just sign the thing and maybe somewhere down the road it will be the incentive to get "your" brand backed if it isn't already.
Yes, I know about the inbred relationship between MAC, Mamiya and Phase but that shouldn't deter a large company like Profoto not to other all options to all players.
Thanks
Rob