From 137bbc8553b17c2dbf33160906d9690b2e47a3c1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alain Reguera Delgado Date: Oct 26 2011 02:34:32 +0000 Subject: Update `Preface/overview.docbook'. --- diff --git a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook index 1ef0ded..b5e6fa2 100755 --- a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook +++ b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook @@ -3,7 +3,83 @@ Overview - ... + 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 &TCP; where those + feelings are made available for anyone to enjoy. + + + + 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.). + + They didn't need a system administrator by then ;-). + + 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 &TCD; + and writing about &TCAR; with the hope of found an Internet + access to share what I've been doing with &TCC; without that + rare doubt of being doing something + inappropriate. + + + + 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. + + + + &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.