[afandian]

I was drawing wider parallels with processes for public contracts outside scholarly publishing, the "Big four" style government contracts. An endless stream of stories and comments appear here. Eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1740428

Edit: not comparing Elsevier to McKinsey per se, but the power imbalance of proprietary vs open.

[vanderZwan]

Thank you, that helped me make sense of your arguments and links :)