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Is it really true that Apple didn't realize it's already used this cat in an OS X release?

OSX 10.1 Puma.

Puma, Cougar, and Mountain Lion are names for the same species of cat (Puma concolor).




The release code words are just that: code words. They're not meant to represent some kind of underlying biological reality. OS X 10.1 was not code-named "The biological species Puma concolor", and OS X 10.8 is not code-named "The biological species Puma concolor".

The code-names "Puma" and "Mountain Lion" are distinct words, ergo they represent different releases. That in biology these words refer to the same species of cat is utterly irrelevant.




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