[throwawayyx96]

Author of the article is the same guy who, some years ago, organized a boycott of Elsevier journals due to their extortionate charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge

He has practiced what he preaches with respect to publishing in open access journals.

[VHRanger]

Timothy Gowers has the moral courage to do what pretty much everyone else is waiting for other people to initiate

[gowld]

Being recognized as the top living mind in an entire field of science backstops a lot of courage.