By "stealing" an existing, long-running and popular acronym, the maintainers are going to stifle this project no matter how much they try to separate themselves from WAMP.
Trick question: is it possible to run WAMP on WAMP?
Potential ambiguity? It's nothing but ambiguity! What were they thinking.
It's important to be aware of our own cognitive biases: while Linux is the de-facto standard on the server side and the startup scene is dominated by MBPs and its variants (with a good helping of Linux again, though often in VMs), this only represents a tiny fraction of developers. Dark Matter Developers are a thing.
It is the predominant Windows PHP development environment and Apache stack - that has millions of users worldwide.
I did not log out of the Google mothership so perhaps my results are skewed, but I also haven't heard of the WAMP protocol before. :)
Ya, but no one in their right mind runs that.
The solution is simple: Wait for everyone to replace MySQL with its non-Oracle clone, MariaDB. See? Easy!
Or maybe they'll go the NoSQL route and use MongoDB.