diff --git a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook index c0ee961..3565231 100755 --- a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook +++ b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook @@ -92,32 +92,69 @@ information media) of introducing free software for freeing the cuban society of privative software. In fact, if you compare the privative software and the way cuban State - operates the information media, based on the resolution 149 - emitted by the Ministerium of Informatics and - Telecomunications (MIT), you may find them very similar. There - is an obsession by controlling all the information media on - the country and they cannot be used to purposes others than - those defined by cuban State. For example, to reach Internet - access, cuban people need to work for the cuban State somehow - and that way complying with whatever politics they impose - about information management. There is no a legal way for - cuban people to contract an Internet service at home, even the - cuban churches in the island have limitations in this area - (unbelievable). The most I see one can do in Cuba to share - data with friends is trying to resolve a fixed - telephone line at home to gain access to the cuban telephone - network and then use it to transmit data using computers. The - telephone network is the communication medium most people have - access to, however, there are limitations in the number of - simultaneous connections that one can phisically perform - between computers, the way of obtaining the required - communication devices, + restricts information sharing, based on the resolution 149 + emitted by the cuban Ministerium of Informatics and + Telecomunications (MIT), you may find them very similar. This + resolution is valid to the statal sector only and regulates + what can and cannot be done inside that area when using + computers to share information. There is not any estipulation + about using information technologies by nautural people + outside the statal sector and spite of it, I've heard of + people that has been called by the cuban State security + departament to explain why they built a LAN in the + neighbourhood to share information (isn't that obvious) and + finally they were intimidated to stop doing so. There is no + legal way for cuban people to contract an Internet service at + home, however, the same isn't true for extranger people with + passport from other countries that visit Cuba or are resident + inhere. It is almost unbelievable how the cuban churches + along the island have limitations in this area, too. + + + + In Cuba there is only one telecomunication organization named + ETECSA. This organization is very tied to the cuban State and + controls everything related to telephone networks and + dedicated links for data transmistion in the island. Based on + the fact that the telephone network is the only communication + medium most cuban people have direct access to, our attention + is centered on it as transfering medium to exchange data using + computers. It is important to remark that, when using the + telephone network as medium for data transmission, there are + limitations in the number of simultaneous connections it is + possible to phisically establish between computers, the way of + obtaining the required communication devices, and the way + information might be exchanged with public services available + on different networks outside Cuba's political boundaries. + Nevertheless, the telephone network has a national scope that + can be used by computers to transfer data all over the island + at a cost of telephone calls. + + + + I beleive that most of problems the cuban people presently + have are caused by a lack of information we need to face in + order to understand what we are and where we are going to, in + the sense of interdependent human beings. To face the + information problem, we need to provide independent ways for + cuban people to express themselves in freedom and provide, + this way, the routes needed to work on. That's my goal with + this work: educating myself in the compromise of providing an + independent space for cuban people to discuss and coordinate + how to create collaborative networks throuth the cuban + telephone network - Communication devices like modems, switches and routers - are available to institutions related to cuban State only. + Considering that I and most cuban poeple haven't Internet + access at present time. - and the way information is exchanged with public - services available on different networks like Internet. + to share information using computers in freedom. + + + + The motivation for this work was taken from the free software + philosophy exposed by Richard Stallman in his book + Free Sofware Free Society and my + personal experience inside &TCP; community.