He’s full of shit. There is no “secret” binary code blob that only Linus wields so I have no idea why he’d blatantly lie like that over information that’s publicly available. Linux’s kernel is all open source so no idea what he’s talking about. He probably read some random shit on the internet and ran with it. Linus couldn’t claim the Linux kernel as his own legally anyway because thousands of developers have contributed to it. The lawsuits would be out the ass if he tried. The only thing Linus owns is literally just the word “Linux”