Vondo - we're not just in the hardware business - we're running a proprietary algorithm and programming that has been fiercely protected for more than 20 years. There are concerns that open access may compromise that. Nothing is impossible - some things just take longer than others.
You'll forgive me for not buying that explanation.
1) I suspect such an algorithm is in the dive computer which is not what I was suggesting opening up.
2) Even if it's in OceanLog, I imagine that if any competitor was really interested in your algorithm, they'd be able to reverse engineer it rather easily.
In the meantime, you've saddled a very nice product which is very reasonably priced with substandard* software. And, from what I can tell, the support from your company for its hardware is superb.
So, having been so harsh, I want to thank you for at least coming here to answer this question (usually these kinds of questions are just met with silence). So I hope you are seriously considering this.
* When I say substandard, I mean some very broad categories:
1) There are several bugs reported on this forum. They seem to take a while to fix, which isn't so great. There seems to be very little effort put into this software.
2) The user interface for Oceanlog is pretty bad. It's typical for in house hardware development, but still not very intuitive.
3) Metric. I dive it, Oceanlog has lots of issues properly supporting it. 0F is not 0C so "0" is not an appropriate value to store when no temperature data is available. Also, tank and thus SAC calculations are done completely differently in metric and SAE. When I switched over, I had to go back and re-enter the size of every single tank.