Talk:Amateur

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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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Darwin

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)[reply]