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 ## Name
 
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+_Feudalism_ was the predominant social system in Medieval times, whereby
+wealthy landowners would divide their land into strips, and lease it to tenants
+to work. This is vaguely analogous, on some level, to the controlled access a
+mutex provides to readers and writers of its variable.
 
 In general, Scala One project names are always chosen with some rationale,
 however it is usually frivolous. Each name is chosen for more for its