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Why not just Wilber? Just like the mascot.
The Linux community can't let an opportunity for an acronym to go to waste. Even more so for a backronym.
It's another case of OSPNS - Open source projects names sucking .
Could have had the recursive acronym KINGIMP (KINGIMP Is Not GIMP) smdh
That's for the fork with a UI implemented in Qt.
Perhaps 'WiLBeR' would be a compromise?
Its ... basically following what I'm going to call 'GLaDOS case' rules.
???
Just sort of seems closer to the kind of silly spellings of robot names in a fair deal of movies and such?
GNU Wilber