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The current move to patent computer programs is a move in the wrong direction and should be stopped. The patent system was originally designed solely to protect small-time inventors from exploitation, not to give large corporations control over a methodology. Any computer program is merely the implementation of a methodology.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

(A) Computer programs should be developed not only by large corporations but by small-time inventors as well.
(B) Implementing a methodology always requires less creative effort than does true invention.
(C) The issue of whether or not to patent computer programs presents the patent system with problems that have never before arisen.
(D) Large corporations should not hold patents for implementations of methodologies.
(E) Small-time inventors who support the move to patent computer programs act contrary to their own best interests.
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Re: The current move to patent computer programs [#permalink] New post 28 Jan 2013, 01:34
The current move to patent computer programs is a move in the wrong direction and should be stopped. The patent system was originally designed solely to protect small-time inventors from exploitation, not to give large corporations control over a methodology. Any computer program is merely the implementation of a methodology.

(D) Large corporations should not hold patents for implementations of methodologies. Correct

1)computer program is the implementation of a methodology.
2)Large corp should not be given control over a methodology.

Option D correctly extends this view to implementation of methodology.
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Re: The current move to patent computer programs [#permalink] New post 28 Jan 2013, 16:44
This one felt trickier than it should have, I got it right but I took 2 min. Answer D felt too simple but the other choices felt like you were hiking through mud, lots of garbage. What's the source of this?
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Re: The current move to patent computer programs [#permalink] New post 29 Jan 2013, 03:37
skiingforthewknds wrote:
This one felt trickier than it should have, I got it right but I took 2 min. Answer D felt too simple but the other choices felt like you were hiking through mud, lots of garbage. What's the source of this?



I also got it right in 1.26 but i wasn't convinced at all, i was more intuitive than thinking even if i'm quite good at this type of question using the technique of negation. And this is what makes finding the correct answer harsh and difficult where the stem is quite simple.
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