[b800h]

It's interesting to note that in the context of this letter about the Journal of Algorithms, that there is now an open-access journal called "Algorithms" which looks like it launched five years after this letter:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms

[tokai]

Take a look at the length of the "controversies" part of that publisher's wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Evaluation_and_controvers...

[_delirium]

With a different set of problems imo. MDPI is a for-profit publisher with a "pay-to-publish" model, charging authors $1800 per accepted paper. And also a mixed reputation on quality, verging on a "paper mill" where they accept anything just to maximize their publication fees. Not a great model imo. There are non-profit Platinum OA journals that don't charge publication fees, like JMLR (https://www.jmlr.org/), which is the only kind of OA I consider interesting.