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@mattjhodgkinson@scicomm.xyz @brembs@mastodon.social @villavelius@mastodon.online @Luke_Drury@mastodon.dias.ie @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org To elaborate on my last response (I didn't have enough space for more than "screw 'em"): Big publishers will ALWAYS react by doing whatever they think will increase their short-term profits. It's in their nature. We need to face the reality that they will never ever be our allies in the transition we want to make, and get used to the idea that we need to do this without them — and indeed in the face of their active opposition.