Open access, copyright wars and the Trojan horse

"Is open access a Trojan horse? Not really. The Trojan horse was meant to deceive, while the open access movement has always been honest and up-front about its goals. But it is still true that traditional publishers have proved, through a series of actions designed to increase their own revenues at the expense of higher education, to be poor stewards of the copyrights and the scholarship that we have long entrusted to them...."