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submitted 2 weeks ago by noumenon@lemmy.world to c/opensource@programming.dev

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[–] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, I didn't read the article...

But how would one open source an algorithm? Wouldn't it be the implementation of an algorithm be what is open sourced?

I hate the overuse and frequent misunderstanding of this word.