You need to earn money, sure. But it's really sad that things like this are not OpenSource for people to play around with. I am sure the possibilities would be endless. This seems to make a great foundation for a new MMORPG in space.
Understatement of the century, 4 years to the closest star, it's the new desert bus simulator!
With real time dilation, she could come back to a finished monument; in this case, she can't.
(In multiplayer, I can imagine "time warp credits" that need to be spent before two players can interact. This would allow Alice and Bob to sync up, but I suspect it might break with more than 2 players.)
Oh, for f#ck's sake. Such a cheap way to belittle this person's lifework.
Take this bit out and the rest of your comment actually makes sense and could serve as a good discussion point.
Of course we can't blame the creator for their moat; under our current economic system, it's basic self-defense.
I find myself saying this about basically all unfree software. So much in our economy is redundant, and obfuscated. I understand the place for competition and new ways of doing things, but it's a shame that artificially limiting the proliferation of good ideas is our default survival strategy.
They're loss-leaders in a SaaS market competition between private corps Facebook and NPM.
Individual libraries compete against other libraries doing the same thing.
Not open-source, yet; but the back-end is though.