About the birth of Tea:

https://medium.com/teaxyz/tea-brew-478a9e736638

In 2004, a friend and I tried to do something along these lines, a structured system to remunerate open source developers (among producers of other types of digital works). I remember trying to pitch a presentation for one of the Debian conferences, and hoping to extend deb packages with the signed metadata. No one was interested-- mostly our fault, but also ahead of its time (no blockchain, and popular indexes like PyPI were just being born).

http://giftfile.org/documents/free_software_hackers_intro

> tea.xyz is a feature-rich, delightful unified package manager that will revolutionize open-source development

I love the American optimism in the copy =)

The page layout does give me a headache though.

There is definitely a sustainability and reward issue with some open source. But I don't think blockchain and web3 are in any way an answer to these problems.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33678060