Author of the post here, I wasn't aware of the name conflict. The name is a reference to a book. OLIN (the One Language Intelligent Network) was their global internet that was able to just run programs without having to have specialized hardware. The "one language" in this case would be WebAssembly.
Sorry - wasn’t trying come off as persnickety - but have seen large public companies be rather defensive/litigious around their brand/trademarks etc.
Did they, Olin Corp, ask Olin Shivers before using that name?
As an aside, there’s an Olin Hall at Johns Hopkins.
It’s a fairly common Swedish family name, AFAIK.
No, it's not. Only 1642 people have Olin as their lastname.
I’m apparently lucky to know several then.
To further the aside, there are many Olin buildings on college campuses, all due to Franklin W. Olin (the founder of the Olin corporation). There is also now an entirely standalone Olin College, which is the biggest shared name with this project in my opinion.