Publish means “make public”. Paywalls are the opposite of publishing

Mike Taylor, open access advocate and research associate at the department of earth sciences, University of Bristol says that preventing publication to make profit is wrong.

Nothing is wrong with publishers making a profit. (…)If you can make money by publishing research, that’s great. The issue is not publishers who make money. The issue is corporations that go by the title “publishers”, but which in fact make money by preventing publication.