The Halloween Documents of yore would suggest otherwise (http://www.catb.org/~esr/halloween/). There were also many telling e-mails revealed in the Comes v. Iowa legislation (http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2007021720...), particularly the ones regarding evangelism.

You don't have to have a deliberate "conspiracy" (a word that often seems used to dismiss reasonable explanations of events) to have people with power using their influence to get other people with power to do things for their benefit (like file proxy lawsuits a la SCO). Their past behavior is in line with nextparadigms's comment.