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    <title>Overview</title>

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        On April 2009, I decided to stop working for Cuban State's

        institutions. This decision came itself emerging on me based

        on the increasing repression impossed to system administrators

        by Cuban State and the lack of an independent way from the

        State to express my feelings about computers and sharing

        information in freedom. I don't pretend to use this book to

        detail the political system I lived on, but I do want to say

        that the more I get involved with such political system the

        more was the distance I felt between the most pure of myself

        and the actions such system wanted me to do. It is motivating

        how one can realize about such things, thanks to bright minds

        like Mr. Richard Stallman with his vision and actions about

        freedom as well as to free communities like &TC;; where those

        feelings are made available for anyone to enjoy.

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    <para>

        It is also fare to mention that freedom has a cost and more if

        you are living in a political system where most people cannot

        make use of it to manifest themselves. I didn't find any

        solution other than isolate myself from that political system

        repressing my natural right of expression. Mentioned that way

        might sound simple but it is a very difficul decision because

        its implications. For example, immediatly after I took that

        decision I didn't find a job to do and had to relay on my

        family which, in its majority, grew up with the political

        system I reject and is attached somehow to it. A terrible

        humilation to me, but less humilation than a direct relation

        since it wasn't my decision to come into the world nor be

        educated in a way I wasn't able to take concience of. This

        way, I gave my first step back into the reconstruction of

        myself. After two years in this situation, Frank Sueiras (the

        housband of my ant Carmen L. Delgado) retires himself from

        working to Cuban State's institution and start doing jobs for

        third parties. In one of those jobs, the Jesuitas church

        contracts him to planificate everything related to hydraulics

        on a building under construction. I went with him there and I

        have to say that the feeling of community there remembered me

        that one experimented inside The CentOS Project. So, I ask him

        to talk there in order for me to work on whatever it be needed

        (e.g., putting glasses on doors, helping the welder man,

        painting, etc.).<footnote>

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            They didn't need a system administrator by then ;-).

        </para>

        </footnote> This way I received a payment for living (which

        was almost 4 times more than what a system administrator

        legally receives from working for the Cuban State). At nights

        I keep myself reading the documentation available inside &TC;;

        and writing about &TCAR; with the hope of found an Internet

        access to share what I've been doing with &TC;; without that

        rare doubt of being doing something

        <quote>inappropriate</quote>.

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    <para>

        The reconstruction of oneself is a painful process, as far as

        I'm experimenting. It is a time of loneliness and waiting you

        need to pass inevitably. In that time you compress yourself

        until you be able of seeing what you are, what you are not,

        what you are doing, why are you doing it, and what purpose

        does everything has for others once your life in this word

        reaches its end. How strong you are to take the responsability

        of your own life and fight against anyone trying to take that

        from you. The life, and all it brings to you, is so yours that

        it is very important everyone be aware of that, specially in

        political systems that insist on living your life for you.

    </para>

    <para>

        &TCAR; development has been the excel I've been attached to

        through all this time. It has been the sence of my days, the

        central place I've used to reconstruct myself and I use this

        book to describe what you can do to help me develop &TCAR; in

        an environment where the only independent way of transfer data

        is the telephone network, motivated by the need of sharing

        still in this very limited conditions.

    </para>

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