You are incorrect, I did not miss that he is selling a service. If you read my original post, you will see that I am not interested in the service he is selling, I am only interested in the code that he alludes to want to contribute. I understand that the $50 is for the installation of the contribution. But I (along with other developers) think that I am more than capable of taking a pre-written contribution, with or without installation instructions, and making it work on my (several) heavily modified stores.

The point of my original post was that I will not give anyone else access to any of my servers or installations – and I'm not the only one that feels that way. If Gary didn't want to give away his v5 code for free, I understood that. I simply wrote him because I didn't understand why he wouldn't even sell the v5 code to anyone with the understanding that it is not allowed to be redistributed or shared, and that he will not offer any support if he doesn't install it himself.

So James, if he is selling the v5 installation as a service, and he isn't selling the actual code, and he gave away the code for v1.12, then it doesn't make sense logically to say that he would not give away, or even sell the code for v5.