- this is what I am TRYING to get OTHER people to do, and I'm showing you that the only path they are willing to take is not cold-turkey because they would be out of business.
By recommending non-free software as a solution, you are not doing that. One does not move away from non-free software by giving support for non-free software.
I am almost determined to pay my FSF membership to Debian instead, the main blocker being that it is too hard to donate money to Debian (or was the last time I tried).
Please read http://www.fsf.org about the campaigns about freeing many common tools that are non-free today, Java, Flash are prominent examples. Debian has never taken such a stance, it has instead resorted to recommending something that is non-free.
You have the tools to write any free software replacement, you simply choose not to since you do not care about freedom and instead resort to using non-free software. The same goes for Debian.