Well, I've had the opposite experience. I wanted to build a basic open source package for unix on my Mac. I got the source and followed the instructions to "mak

Well, I've had the opposite experience. I wanted to build a basic open source package for unix on my Mac. I got the source and followed the instructions to "make whatever". It failed with highly cryptic errors that I later learned through lots of searching meant there were dependencies on other open source projects I didn't have, and all of which had the same sort of dependency problems of their own, and some of which didn't have the proper config files for building on a Mac. I gave up. But honestly all of that misses the point. The article is talking about typical users, not developers. Building stuff is far beyond people who don't know what a browser cookie is.