I'm not going to spend several hundred dollars or more on a compiler just to run a server. Hell if I wamted to toss that money, I'd go back to playing EQ live.
As for someone compiling binaries every time the source is released...big deal. They're compiling them anyway for their own use right? What's so hard about posting it to a web site? When/if I figure out how to compile, I will be doing just that. I think it's ridiculous to have all these people needing to learn to compile just to set up a server. That's my opinion. Like it or lump it...