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Um, no he isn't Linus Torvalds wrote the Linux Kernel, Richard Stallmen created GNU which is used for most of the programs around the Linux Kernel.
In other words Linus Torvald created the Kernel of Linux and Richard Stallmen created GNU that is used in many OSS operating systems (like many of the BSD variants)
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Watch a movie called Revelation OS I think it explains it all if I remember correctly