Yes, there is philosophy and there are principles and there is the real world. I wasn't being absolutely serious with "evil scumbags", because I understand that they are children of their time and in their time (now, too) proprietary and lock-in and all sorts of abominations are commonplace. "Everybody's doing it". So, one could say that they can't help having a bad upbringing.

The point remains, though: Linux can be less frustrating if one can find joy in the Freedom aspect of it and treasure the open applications one uses as their own. I love my child (which in this case is the child of all the peoples, if they want to) more than that proprietary child and I think it's better, even though the proprietary child may be more shiny and can do more tricks or do them better.

Sometimes one might want to use what works, though. I'm no saint either, I use proprietary drivers for some computers, for example.