Corporations being central to the operations of academia is bad news. It's bad now with Elsevier and its ilk. It'll be bad in the future if Academia.edu starts

Corporations being central to the operations of academia is bad news. It's bad now with Elsevier and its ilk. It'll be bad in the future if Academia.edu starts mattering for tenure. Here's the solution. It's a steep climb. Persuasive academics need to start convincing people with money to donate millions and millions to not-for-profit collaborations of universities and government research entities to start open research and open-source journals. Truly altruistic people need to start and run these journals, convinced of their mission of providing open research to all the world. They need to be motivated by the mission. The money needs to be there too. But given the choice between optimizing selling widgets for Amazon, or providing the world with free access to all research the world over... what job would you choose? The gov't could support it too, but I'd rather their support go towards actual research than a collaboration. There's too much bureaucracy when you take money from the gov't.