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by davisr 759 days ago
No he didn't.

"I called it Linux originally as a working name. That was just because "Linus" and the X has to be there--it's UNIX, it's like, a law--and what happened was that I initially thought that I can't call it "Linux" publicly because it's just too egotistical. That was before I had a big ego."

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kZlOCHYu1Vk