http://www.symphonious.net/2005/06/25/the-downside-of-opensource/ Living in a state of accord. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:31:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/06/25/the-downside-of-opensource/#comment-7051 Nikolas Coukouma Sat, 25 Jun 2005 05:11:12 +0000 http://www.symphonious.net/2005/06/25/the-downside-of-opensource/#comment-7051 The only reasons I see to provide binaries are 1) build time 2) disk space. I know this is an issue with Mozilla stuff (building Firefox takes an hour or two on a 2GHz Athlon 64 and the sources are about 500MB). I haven't tried building WebKit, so I don't know about it. The only reasons I see to provide binaries are 1) build time 2) disk space. I know this is an issue with Mozilla stuff (building Firefox takes an hour or two on a 2GHz Athlon 64 and the sources are about 500MB). I haven’t tried building WebKit, so I don’t know about it.

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