Comment by do_not_redeem

That's true for most people for ordinary software too. How many people actually build Linux or Chromium from source? Building Chromium takes more RAM and HD space than most people even have. Yet the world gets immense value from the few who do. I wouldn't want to live in a world where WebKit and Chromium were closed source. You can run a Chromium fork without having to build it yourself. And compute costs will come down over time.