The Debian Project is even less of a proprietary software vendor than Linux Magazine, who published Georg's Brave GNU World in a friendly way IIRC, so some FSFers must have thought them worthy of assistance.
Brave GNU world is licensed under a free license that allows republication. Comparing a project and a magazine is beyond absurd. Are you going to imply that if Microsoft publishes a copy of the GNU Manifesto, then the "FSFers" must have thought them worthy of assistance? Please. Stop being silly MJ.