Yeah, lets compare a 40 year old monopoly company (making money w large contracts) to a bunch of small upstart developers (making money $0.99 at a time) and laugh.
Let's not. Let's compare the mobile app market to one company. The mobile app market has a number of small upstart developers making $0.99 at a time, but it also includes companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and a large number of software houses that are 20-40 years old, several of which have been on the receiving end of antitrust lawsuits.
You might want to learn the difference between its and it's
I know the difference, but how should I go about teaching this difference to the virtual keyboard of a mobile device? Or is there a key ACM paper on how to guess where "its" or "it's" should go in context?
So, non-free dependencies? Not on my watch!
The specifications for the required ammunition are well-known. The stuff is harder to make than the firearm, however. For that to differ you'll have to use something substantially higher- or lower-tech, e.g. caseless or black powder. And caseless ammo is only easier to produce if you disregard the difficulty of producing a practical propellant.
Slave labor? 'Fraid not.
The Chinese government itself literally operates labor camps where criminals are forced to produce consumer goods.
Your argument would be more credible
You clearly do not decide who is credible when you say that slave labor is not slave labor.
RMS doesn't do guns because only one or two are open-source, and he's seen the code and knows they're shitty.
The 1911 is Open Source today, you can literally download blueprints for every part of the weapon. It's one of the best-loved and best-performing firearms of all time. It does require the use of appropriate ammunition, but the openness of the design has permitted developers to adapt it to several different types.
The Xposed framework
Xposed requires root. Why do so many more GNU/Linux devices than Android devices come with root? And how do I get a headphone jack fixed after I have voided the warranty by having installed a rooted ROM?
Using software in wine is not really looking beyond Microsoft.
By that standard, using software in GNU/Linux is not really looking beyond Novell because just as Wine is a free reimplementation of Windows API, GNU/Linux is a free reimplementation of UNIX.
Research, buy, take responsibility.
How should I "research" thoroughly if the product isn't even available for inspection in my geographic area?
Oh wait... they haven't passed the bar yet.
Suggest you just sit there and wait till life gets easier.