Did you read he article? Simoms bought a license from the closed source academic authors, and gave them to every academic institution in the world (but not amateurs).  No one is paying for it (except Simons), so there is no voting with wallets happening here. Simone picked a winner. Academics don&#x27;t really have a lot of funding , and purchase decisions cone from administrative boards (like the folks who buy Enterprise Windows+Office  deployments), not the users.<p>See also: tragedy of the commons, and free riders. People like not paying for things, regardless of quality.