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Not as far as I know - I think that one of those small, mid-nineties firms (Paul, Kooka, Grafton, Machine Tech, someone like that) was making linear pull brakes a couple of years before Shimano brought them out.
When that happened, everyone transitioned - for all intents and purposes Shimano were an MTB monopoly.