Obsolete software from 1990s features in Brexit deal text
by Ben Quinn from Technology | The Guardian on (#5C6QV)
Descriptions of Netscape Communicator and Mozilla Mail as modern' leads to questions over whether text was copied and pasted
The EU-UK Brexit deal refers to defunct decades-old computer software such as Netscape Communicator as modern", raising suspicions that some of the text may have been copied and pasted in.
Online commenters gleefully shared the observation that page 921 of the painfully birthed trade agreement refers to Netscape Communicator - released in June 1997 - and Mozilla Mail as being modern e-mail software packages".
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