The creator of Homebrew has a plan to get open supply contributors paid (Ep. 506)

On this episode, we chat with Max Howell, creator of Homebrew, about his new bundle supervisor, Tea, and the way it goals to unravel the issue of offering funding for in style open supply tasks.

Notes 

Through the years Homebrew, an open supply bundle supervisor, has emerged because the undertaking with the best variety of particular person contributors. Regardless of all that, it’s creator Max Howell, couldn’t make a dwelling off the occasional charity of the hundreds of thousands of people that used the software program he constructed. The XKCD cartoon beneath might be essentially the most regularly repeated joke on the podcast during the last three years.

Whereas he’s not a crypto bull, Max was impressed with an answer for the open supply funding dilemma  by his efforts to purchase and promote an NFT. A contract written in code and shared in public enforced a rule sending a portion of his proceeds to the digital objects unique creator. What if the identical funding mechanism may very well be utilized to open supply tasks? 

In March of 2022, Max and his co-founder launched Tea, a type of spirtual successor to Homebrew. It has quite a lot of new options Max wished in a bundle supervisor, plus a blockchain based mostly strategy to making sure that creators, maintainers, and contributors of open supply software program can all receives a commission for his or her efforts. 

You may learn Max’s launch publish on Tea right here and sure, in fact there’s a white paper.

Tags: homebrew, max howell, tea.xyz, the stack overflow podcast