[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[jbv]

>
> Won't argue with that. A lot of 18th and 19th century science was done by
> idle rich guys. Back then you could treat it as a serious hobby and still
> produce good work.

not only rich guys : Einstein for instance wasn't rich when he
started publishing his works...
I recently read a paper by a science historian who said that today
Einstein, if he were unknown like he was in 1905, would have no
chance to publish anything because of the "big names" who would
block such radically new theories...

JB