I really think what you say here is deeply ideological. As I explained in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657030 https://news.ycombinator

I really think what you say here is deeply ideological. As I explained in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8657030), there exist ways to have high quality OA venues at a fraction of the cost per publication that are demanded by gold/APCs OA publishers. You can read more about these models by googling for Diamond Open Access and Platinum Open Access (and see very successful and large scale exemples such as SciELO and revues.org).