Taylor Byrnes wrote:
-> Pay for Qt; why bother when GTK+ is free?
In reality the cost of development toolkits is an insignificant criteria when balanced against the background of support and development extensions as detailed later in Kevins reply to you. This is even more so for established companies that want to port their products to linux. It is also pretty hard to beat the concept of a source base that can compile to windows , Mac and linux with insignificant change.
On another note there have always been numerous toolkits/libraries for windows apart from the Foundation classes libraries, The Object Windows library and the then revolutionary Visual Component Libraries used in Delphi and to a lesser extent Visual-Basic which led to whole encapsulated component libraries of Active-X controls.
andrew
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