Re:Unfortunate - Should be in a Museum (Score 1)

> the short-sighted "owners" of the pot You mean the "actual owners"? The pot was run by a group of people who paid weekly to be in their "coffee club". Also, the actual pot wasn't the original pot, so it in itself would be pretty misplaced in a museum, perhaps under a sign "the last of the first webcam coffee pots". Its best legacy is that the code and hardware specs were publically available, and probably inspired one or two people along the way.

Selling a broken pot is hardly what I'd call destructive capitalism... the CUCL offer afternoon tea and biscuits for something trivial like 12p and 2p respectively, and Tim mentions that they want to shun the ultimate symbol of coffee capitalism and buy their own machine.