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by oaiey 2267 days ago
The whole purpose of "open source" and "free software" is to allow modifications and ownership by the user. Both requires to compile on your own. So I would not call it a burden (as opposed to "benefit") but a consequence of being open source.

So we should consider the binaries as a branded favor of Microsoft for the lazy rest of us ;)