This is an academic talking about work he's doing for free to help other academics and students. In order to help these people, he's required to engage in shado

This is an academic talking about work he's doing for free to help other academics and students. In order to help these people, he's required to engage in shadow work that benefits neither him nor the people he's trying to help. I applaud the stand he's taking. Rent-seeking publishers are not only extracting value without providing much to justify their slice of the pie, they're doing it in such a way as to put an additional burden on everyone else. If I had a client who forced me to spend twenty minutes creating an account and logging into a service that provided a hostile user experience, I'd try to educate them about better alternatives, and if they weren't amenable to that, I'd charge them for the wasted time.