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First commit for Redox was April 20th 2015. First commit for Redux (the JS library, if that's what you're talking about) was May 30th 2015.

If no one knows about your project it's name doesn't matter.

Bring to mind the old MikeRoweSoft vs. Microsoft thing.

When choosing a name you can't exactly predict future people using your name.

Yeah, but if you are unknown you can easily rebrand

They are well-known in the world of kernel-developers. If JS developers don't know something... well, who cares?