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What is it about ‘amateur’ products that is different from ‘professional’ products? It isn’t ‘quality’ because amateur stuff is often better – certainly today when access to high quality tools is drastically leveling the playing field. I tend to agree with Dave Winer:
"Amateur is not below professional. It's just another way of doing [media]. The root of the word amateur is love, and someone who does something for love is an amateur. Someone who does something to pay the bills is a professional. The amateurs have [more integrity than] the professionals. If you're an amateur you have less conflict of interest and less reason not to tell your truth than if you have to pay the bills and please somebody else."
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What is it about ‘amateur’ products that is different from ‘professional’ products? It isn’t ‘quality’ because amateur stuff is often better – certainly today when access to high quality tools is drastically leveling the playing field. I tend to agree with Dave Winer:
"Amateur is not below professional. It's just another way of doing [media]. The root of the word amateur is love, and someone who does something for love is an amateur. Someone who does something to pay the bills is a professional. The amateurs have [more integrity than] the professionals. If you're an amateur you have less conflict of interest and less reason not to tell your truth than if you have to pay the bills and please somebody else."
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Movable Type 4.0 Everything here is my personal opinion.