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Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?

May 14, 2002  By Doc Searls
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The commercial infrastructure we call "the commons" depends on something deeper that Hollywood still doesn't understand. Linux and the Net are both part of it. Let's call it "innerstructure."

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Re: Is Linux Infrastructure? Or Is it Deeper than that?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/15/2002 - 01:00.

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?

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Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/15/2002 - 01:00.

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?

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Submitted by Doc (not verified) on Sun, 05/19/2002 - 01:00.

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.