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jane_lance

@kctipton @rjayasinghe I would expect it to be a reference to Weyland-Yutani, but that's spelled differently

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Mia // Davixxa

@jane_lance @kctipton @rjayasinghe As someone else pointed out - it's a reference to Wayland, the successor to X11.

Both are things that make GUIs work on Linux (and other UNIXlikes)

etym dub

@jane_lance

From the bulging file of 'things I suspect but never got round to chasing down':
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waylan

Ridley Scott being a Brit & all, I always wondered if he just nicked that name off a roadsign & tweaked the spelling...

@kctipton @rjayasinghe

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