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There's actually a bunch of journals that have Open Access (making the articles available for free, usually under Creative Commons licenses). That at least eliminates the cost for the readers.
However, that's not a guarantee the OA journals don't collect publication fees, or even that the fees would be smaller than on non-OA journals. Fees range from "just trying to keep the lights on" to "same ol' grift, but ostensibly nicer to the reader".
Also, starting a new journal is always a bit of a tricky process in that you obviously want the people to trust in the journal and starting from total zero makes it harder. There have been a bunch of journals that were outright scams and OA obviously won't fix that.
Also go ahead and guess what kinds of journals are considered prestigious in academia and will open critical doors for a scientist in their career....
hint, it isn't the ones trying to make academic publishing better and accessible for all