Hi Leland,

IIRC, QT is free for creating GPL apps on Linux. You have to pay to use it for commercial apps.

>Hi John,
>
>Yes, QT can get expensive, especially when adopted as a large enterprise's primary language. I'm a little confused about priceing on Linux.
>
>If you open the Qt Designer and click on [Help --> About], a screen will appear that states:
>
>

>         Version 3.1
>       Copyrighted 2000 - 2002
>
>This program is licensed to you under the term of the
>GNU General Public License.  Version 2 is published
>by the Free Software Foundation.  This give you legal
>permission to copy, distribute, modify, etc, etc, etc.
>

>
>It appear that Qt is free with Linux. I noticee that QT and the QT designer are both include in the Fedora Project's "package list". Fedora is a Project sponsored by RedHat to provide Linux to anyone Free under the GNU license.
>
>There certainly are a lot of choices. Based on my brief exposure to Qt, I really like it because it makes accessing MySQL and Postgres so easy.
>
>Still I know of no other language that give the functionality and ease of use as VFP, all in a single package (e.g. IDE, language, and database engine). It's should be a crime to have it phased out, especially before there is a bettter product to take its place. It should also be a crime to deny other platforms the pleasure of the product.
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>I really havn't taken a close look at wxWindows, but if time permits I may get around to it.
>
>Regards,
>
>LelandJ