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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:03:54 -0600
From:      "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: curiosity
Message-ID:  <20010125110354.B16941@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <01b801c086e8$c227d960$4d011c0a@delacruz.avis.com.mx>; from eric@iteso.mx on Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:06:15AM -0600
References:  <054F7DAA9E54D311AD090008C74CE9BD01F1E8D8@exchange.panasonicfa.com> <01012516521002.17676@ricin.localnet> <01b801c086e8$c227d960$4d011c0a@delacruz.avis.com.mx>

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On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 10:06:15AM -0600, Eric De La Cruz Lugo wrote:
> Linus Torvalds named it that way (not only because he has a colosal EGO and
> for the close spelling with his name but just to make shure AT&T dont sue
> him jejejejeje :))

Actually, he wanted to call it Freeix, but the person who ran the ftp
server where Linus had originally posted his code changed its name to
Linux.
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Victor R. Cardona 
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