Openness and freedom are not the same thing. A freedom to act is something different than an openness for other actors’ actions. This is the fate of today’s open science built on an unrestricted openness. In an era characterized by academic capitalism open science means an openness especially for commercial influences supported by state authorities and research funds. Contrary to an unrestricted openness giving a dominant capitalist logic freedom to act on science, the open access, open data, and open code of open science, need to be understood as a public good with other, and carefully selected freedoms to act. These freedoms should empower robust collegial modes of (peer) producing science and limit commercial actors’ freedoms to act upon science.