I'd better put my code on GitHub and double-license it with GPL and a commercial license. That way I would probably earn more bucks and keep my intellectual pro

I'd better put my code on GitHub and double-license it with GPL and a commercial license. That way I would probably earn more bucks and keep my intellectual property. Another point is that it seems that the concept was devised by somebody with a non-programming background, as it sounds rather weird to say that they host "an algorithm". An algorithm is a theoretical concept. You cannot provide a theoretical concept as a service. You can provide an implementation of an algorithm. So it would be more correct to say that they just run software libraries on their servers. For many "algorithms" going to an external server to process the data would be way more costly than to just get a software library and run it locally. So for those cases the idea is not useful. For example, the quicksort thing is purely a joke. But hosting automatically scalable software services is generally not a bad idea at all. For example, for some proprietary advanced AI services it seems pretty reasonable. Although I am not sure who's going to just give away intellectual property like that to Algorithmia.