They may have started servicing a need in the beginning as simply setting up some servers, and serving as a central repository, which I do not understand why this wasn&#x27;t just setup by some other part like a university or research foundation for public use, but Elsevier have turned that into holding publicly-funded research hostage. You know when you are debating with somebody, and their logic runs out, they start floundering and emoting? That&#x27;s what the comments from Elsevier are starting to sound like.
I have no problem with them making some money from Ads to help their monthly server hosting and maintenance costs, but they have a weird, self-strangulating business model that is headed nowhere real fast.