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Huh. And here I always thought it's because these users are allowed to "take the wheel".

• derefr 8y ago
  I had to stop and ponder the number of layers of humor intended when, in the movie WALL-E, the captain’s interface to the ship is a robot that resembles a ship’s helm. Yes, there’s a naval metaphor... but it’s also an example of a root user acting not through root privilege, but through wheel privilege. :)
  • xenomachina 8y ago
    And then the wheel is threatened when a actual root (ie: the plant) shows up.
  • bsder 8y ago
    It's certainly possible. The Pixar folks had a lot of interaction with the BSD folks early on. John Lasseter, who headed up Pixar, drew the most widely known BSD Daemon, after all.