Fazendo-medindo a economia do software: Microsoft versus Open Source – dos primeiros encontros até 2005

Ivan Da Costa Marques; Rubens Araujo Menezes de Souza Filho

doi:10.48160/18517072re27.403

Authors

Ivan Da Costa Marques Curso de Pós-Graduação em Informática do NCE&IM. Curso de Pós-Graduação em História das Ciências e das Técnicas e Epistemologia, UFRJ.
Rubens Araujo Menezes de Souza Filho Curso de Logística, FATEC.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48160/18517072re27.403

Keywords:

microsoft, open software, economy of software

Abstract

Within Economy field, a proposition is strengthened –smoothing their way to be taken by serious and to be established as a fact– if it allows to the creation of econometric tools linked since the beginning to the claim, along the process of configuration, strengthening and confirmation of its truths, legitimating them. This does not cancel the truths of Economy, but it relativizes them by claiming that they are not detached from especific accounting systems (framings) embedded within them since its configuration. This article analyzes the controversies arousing from meetings among two heterogeneous entities: Microsoft and Open Software, particulary how is established an accounting instrument around these meetings that acts over the conditions of truth or falsehood of economic propositions in the field of the economy of software. We focus over how an early situation of open conflict seems to lead to the establishing of a space of economic negotiations. Then, the conflict is partially transformed into an contest ordered by an “actant”, the accounting instrument: “Software’s total cost of ownership”. This instrument grew up in scale in January, 2004 with an advertising campaign and the creation of the Microsoft owned website “Get the facts”.

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