You have done just enough research to use the right nomenclature in the wrong way. Using a drogue might not technically be freefall, but it is called drogue-fall because you're hauling ass. It is not a parachute. The para part of parachute means it will slow your decent enough to save your life. A drogue is used mainly for stability and to slow you down enough so your parachute won't explode when deployed. Deploying a drogue doesn't mean you're now "under canopy".

As to a drogue making this no longer a skydive, drogues are used in tandem skydives and are most certainly perfectly acceptable.

You're entitled to an opinion, it just so happens that your opinion is wrong.

Isn't the record for highest sky-dive? isn't height all that matters? is using a different parachute somehow not sky-diving?

> Isn't the record for highest sky-dive?

Yes, it isn't, because it's not a skydive with a drogue, it's canopy flight.

> isn't height all that matters?

Height of... skydive?

> is using a different parachute somehow not sky-diving?

Yes. Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (agency that confirms these world records) doesn't recognize it as a free-fall. And from my own experience -- yes, it's way different ;)