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by aspenmayer 608 days ago
In this case, it seems close to a prisoner's dilemma.

That would make the researchers the prisoners and Springer the jailer in this analogy.

All researchers are incentivized to defect to the jailer(s)/private publishers until they know that there is a critical mass of prisoners willing to make a prison break/switch to open access journals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma