OS author also distributes, maintains and supports project. Just compiling some opensource projects (Firefox, Chromium) is very complicated. I am not sure what

OS author also distributes, maintains and supports project. Just compiling some opensource projects (Firefox, Chromium) is very complicated. I am not sure what happened here. But if large project would use outdated or broken version, author may get bombarded with support requests for problem, that was solved years ago.