I haven’t read the details of Tea, but there are a thousand ways that smart contracts, blockchain and cryptocurrencies could help with that.
Yes, be concerned about what further “commercialising” open source means.
But to attack a very interesting incentive and governance mechanism just because it contains the word crypto, and cast aspertions at the Homebrew founder just because he us looking to make a living is shortsighted and unfair though.
Edit - Here’s a silly example use case: Create a DAO (virtual organisation) for all open source project developers. Charge commercial organisations for a license or extension of the open source project managed as an NFT. Any funds from that license are split between the DAO members in perpetuity based on their contributions, incentivising further development and fair compensation. The developer can keep his entitlement to the income or sell it as an asset later on. The trustless nature of Web3 supports the decentralised nature of open source.
Sure there are a million problems with that, but it has potential to accelerate open source and fairly compensate developers no?