Not true. If the Linux kernel project, and their advocates ever
preached software freedom, then the term 'Linux' could have become a symbol of software freedom too. The reason why it is not is because they have expressed explicitly that they don't care about software freedom. That is the crux of the matter. GNU project wants several other free software projects flourish, as long as they talk of freedom.
hahahah....another pointless intellectual debate wasting bandwidth, time and arriving to no conclusion!