Open access to scientific knowledge and feudalism knowledge: Is there a connection?

"However, paradoxical, the open access movement to scientific knowledge, eventually, facilitates feudalism of knowledge. We call this phenomenon the 'open access – paradox'. ...In this article we will consider the open access to scientific knowledge as another major neo-liberal project in a globalizing world. However, despite the excellent objectives set forth in this project, namely, to allow free and open access to research results, and thereby dramatically accelerate the circulation of scientific knowledge, in our opinion, the true, although veiled the aim of the open access movement, is the removal of the most significant and cutting-edge scientific knowledge from free circulation and its commercialization and reintroduction into a open, but now commercial, circulation in the TRIPS (trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights). The second – later – goal could not, of course, arise in the core of the world's institutes and transnational companies and the fact that the Open Society Institution stand behind this project; with the Budapest initiative to open access to scientific knowledge speaks volumes....Paradoxically, the open access movement emerged as an opposition to the neo-liberal aspirations of commercial publishers, but it has fallen under the control of the neo-liberal forces, and has become a tool to rake in even bigger profits. We call this phenomenon the 'open access – paradox'...."