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Even if it eventually gets covered by funding, this is still kind of bad. Who gets to publish is basically decided at funding time, not on merits of a paper.

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It makes more sence for taxpayer to pay for publishing of research, than for each of individually to pay for accessing it.

As a general view, I am not sure on the merits of this spesific event.

But also, why are commercial entities reviweing scientific papers and deciding merit?

Are their interests aligned with mine as a tax payer?

Commercial entities are not reviewing papers, are they? Editors and reviewers are not (usually) employed and are certainly not paid for their work.

It was 10+ years ago, but I once saw the amount of money Springer paid my old boss (chair of a department) for being managing editor of a run of the mill low impact journal. He spend maybe 10h per month on it but was paid 1.5x yearly of what I was earning for a full time job.

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