Why is wxWindows free, and will it ever be commercial or shareware?
It's free because:
- it was never intended to compete as a commercial product, since
there are not sufficient resources at AIAI.
- the feedback and bug fixes that AIAI get from the Internet community
are extremely valuable.
- having used much free software in the past, it's only right
to put something back.
- AIAI gains a small amount of publicity (well, so the story goes).
- I got bored of writing code that never saw the light of day.
Neither I nor AIAI have any plans to produce a commercial or shareware version.