I've known of cases where people have hung themselves with socks, like life and love, death will find a way.

thats why we use terms like "click" for one km, kilo for one kg etc but we do like to shorten words down under.

The skills are worth something otherwise they wouldn't be needed, the basis of economic value is the desire for something grants it value. Anyway that is a side point, I have always found that outside immediate family, tech work grants favours among friends if that person has no marketable skills then they buy you a six pack.

Legal? yes. Ethical? No, unless they add additional junk like support models they have made for you to play with etc.
The biggest issue I have isn't the company selling the software, they are selling the pretty box and commercially made CD presumably a manual of some variety they can justify charging a fee for that sort of thing. the big issue is that they are using other peoples property, (pictures not software) and claiming them as their own. that is fraud. The nice people have let us use their creation (program) for free for that we give them props and donations if we can afford them but they don't ask for more. The sad part is that this is covered under the GPL and shouldn't need to be reiterated ad nauseam.

Creating a basic level of standards and practices is hardly telling people what to do.

I have a wm 6.5 omnia, honestly i have had no problems with it however the iphone's that I have borrowed from people on occasion really are just toys for people to play with. there is a reason that people run windows phones and it's the fact that they don't play games on them all day, don't browse through facebook or any other social site, they use them to book air flights, check stock prices, amend documents etc that's what the windows phones are good for. want to play games get an iphone or better yet be bothered to lug around a laptop and play real games.