Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?
May 14th, 2002 by Doc Searls in
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Re: Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?
On May 15th, 2002 Anonymous says:
I don't think that's correct. Ultra and supra are the words you're thinking of. Infra is roughly the same as inter, which is also synonymous with inner. Pesky Latin!
Re: Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?
On May 15th, 2002 Anonymous says:
infra means below, not within. "Below, beneath, under, after" (from Merriam-Webster's 1913 unabridged dictionary). So why are you coining a new word?
Re: Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?
On May 19th, 2002 Doc (not verified) says:
You're right. I had read my sources wrong. I had mistaken infra- for intra- . See here.
Yet I still believe we need a term that applies to regions deeper than infrastructure. Subinfrastructure might be more accurate, as a Latin derivative, than innerstructure.
Not sure it will read as meaningfully, however.