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I don't think the open source comment is accurate. Most open source programmers are actually professionals who choose not to take advantage of copyright protection. -- Joflynn ( talk) 22:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
1. AIUI Wikipedia articles are supposed to reference Internet articles. Where are those references? 2. This is an important article, and deserves more attention. The notion that "professional" = "superior", "amateur" = "inferior" doubtless appeals to those who are able to demonstrate that they are in the "professional" camp, including academics, but surely it is obvious that if someone makes a valuable contribution to a field of endeavour - e.g. by contributing a widely-accepted mathematical proof - it is in fact irrelevant whether that field of endeavour is their "primary" field or not (and the notion that people have a "primary" activity is in itself perhaps a bizarre notion that could usefully be knocked on the head. Sixareen ( talk) 20:50, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I am not sure if Darwin can be considered amateur since he was paid for his services on the Beagle, and profited from his work in "On the origin of Species". - -- 74.198.165.53 ( talk) 02:31, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
A perfect example of this can be found in Linus Torvalds and the development of Linux. This example and the open source community is detailed in Chapter 10 of Clay Shirky's book: "Here Comes Everybody". Amcnamee ( talk) 06:05, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if something could be made of the historical (see the history of the modern Olympics for the obvious example) link between support for amateurism and elitism/class snobbery - where rich amateur athletes would support amateurism to avoid the chance of being beaten by their social "inferiors" by blocking anyone that couldn't afford to train/compete without being paid for it. -- 81.149.74.231 ( talk) 12:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
This page has no content other than a definition and a list of See also items. I propose that this article become a disambiguation page and Amateur (disambiguation) be redirected here. Leschnei ( talk) 18:28, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
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I don't think the open source comment is accurate. Most open source programmers are actually professionals who choose not to take advantage of copyright protection. -- Joflynn ( talk) 22:12, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
1. AIUI Wikipedia articles are supposed to reference Internet articles. Where are those references? 2. This is an important article, and deserves more attention. The notion that "professional" = "superior", "amateur" = "inferior" doubtless appeals to those who are able to demonstrate that they are in the "professional" camp, including academics, but surely it is obvious that if someone makes a valuable contribution to a field of endeavour - e.g. by contributing a widely-accepted mathematical proof - it is in fact irrelevant whether that field of endeavour is their "primary" field or not (and the notion that people have a "primary" activity is in itself perhaps a bizarre notion that could usefully be knocked on the head. Sixareen ( talk) 20:50, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
I am not sure if Darwin can be considered amateur since he was paid for his services on the Beagle, and profited from his work in "On the origin of Species". - -- 74.198.165.53 ( talk) 02:31, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
A perfect example of this can be found in Linus Torvalds and the development of Linux. This example and the open source community is detailed in Chapter 10 of Clay Shirky's book: "Here Comes Everybody". Amcnamee ( talk) 06:05, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
I wonder if something could be made of the historical (see the history of the modern Olympics for the obvious example) link between support for amateurism and elitism/class snobbery - where rich amateur athletes would support amateurism to avoid the chance of being beaten by their social "inferiors" by blocking anyone that couldn't afford to train/compete without being paid for it. -- 81.149.74.231 ( talk) 12:07, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
This page has no content other than a definition and a list of See also items. I propose that this article become a disambiguation page and Amateur (disambiguation) be redirected here. Leschnei ( talk) 18:28, 6 May 2018 (UTC)