Trojan Room Coffee Pot Auctioned Off

dlesko writes "The historic Trojan Room coffee pot at The University of Cambridge has gone to the highest bidder on ebay for £3,350.00 (that's about $5,055.20 USD based on the currency rates as of 8/12/01). You can see the results for about 90days. Now they just have to hope that the person actually comes through with the dough..." A fitting end to a net.legend. If I could figure out where Arial, my old DEC Alpha Multia that was the original Slashdot, I would auction that off and give the cash to the EFF (minus shipping a cost of a case of beer ;) Dave? Rosie? Where did that thing go? I know it was finally retired as the SMTP server... I probably should get it back someday ;)

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It is all about the Means of Production.

[Kiss the Blade]

The Means of Production is the only measure of value. That this pot, which is used for producing tea, is sold for such a disgraceful price shows how fucked up capitalism is.

The Means of Production has been dissociated from any fair concept of value by the iniquities of capitalism. In a fair, socilaist world, this pot would be valued at its inherent worth (about £3), and the rest of the money would be spent on enhancing the real means of production, the Satanic Mills and farmlands of our comrades, the working man.

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.

So we see the legacy of the iconic pot is tarnished by this exchange. Tim effected a socialist revolution in the Cambridge labs by buying a pot, such that the workers could own the Means of Production and free themselves from the tyranny of capitalism (the lab coffee machine). And now, this same socialist icon is being sold like some expensive harlot! You should be ashamed, supporting this betrayal of the Marxist vision of Tim.