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nukeop
Name collision with a popular usb image writer.
jtanza
Surprisingly, I somehow failed to notice this until yesterday. If it becomes an issue, I am not in any way attached to the name - i'd be happy to change it.
O_H_E
Better now than later, because the other one is pretty famous open source cross tool.

BTW: what does that name mean?

jtanza
That was me trying to be clever choosing a quintessential dog name, as the application "fetches" the paper (rss feeds) for you :D . I was playing around with the name Rover and a few others for a while as well, but went with Rufus for the cheap .news TLD
Nexxxeh
Rexfus, a combination of Rex and Rufus, is available (including the dot com) and would be easy to SEO.
wingerlang
Are these names somehow related to each other? Our childhood dogs (RIP) were Rex and Rufus.
nameSpaceWaste
I agree with Nexxxeh; Rexfus is a good choice.

  Rexfus => Receives for us.
  Rexfus => Rx       F   Us
  Rexfus => Rex      Fus
  Rexfus => Rexfus
(Same as comment above -- re-commenting here in lieu of a PM)
nerdywordy
I for one really like the name and URL and don't mind the name collision.

It's something that is bound to happen. There are a finite number of words, names, and spellings to make use of.

Nexxxeh
Not really, because it doesn't need to be a real word or an existing name. It could be Rexfus, for example. Even the dot com is available, and as a combination of Rex and Rufus, still dog inspired.
oliv__
That's way harder to pronounce.
nameSpaceWaste
Rexfus is great!

It receives RSS Feeds, so:

  Rexfus => Receives for us.
  Rexfus => Rx       F   Us
  Rexfus => Rex      Fus
  Rexfus => Rexfus
nerdponx
Maybe call it "Rufus News" or something? You get to keep the fun dog name that way.
nukeop
I don't think it's an issue, but it'll be harder for your tool to be at the top of search engine results, so some rebranding might be beneficial for your visibility.
ysleepy
:D I built myself an RSS Reader in Java too.

Also with the crusty ROME toolkit and H2, but I made a simple UI in JavaFX.

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