On April 2009, I decided to stop working for cuban State. This decision emerged with the increasing feeling of repression I experimented when one, as system administrator, isn't agree with the restrictions impossed by the State and try to find an alternative way to express differently. In this situation one can realize that the cuban political system lacks of such independent alternatives for anyone to use. I don't pretend to use this book to detail the political system I live on, but I do want to say that the more I got involved with the cuban political system the more distance I felt between the most pure of myself and the actions the system expected from me to do. However, it is motivating to see how people could realize about such things thank to bright minds like Mr. Richard Stallman with his philosophy about freedom and an immense free software community under constant development which provides the medium to express the free software philosophy as way of living. In these last years, the cuban State has shown signs to start using free software distributions with the goal of reaching a technology independency which is quiet contradictory to me. What independency we are talking about here? Independency for whom, and from whom? The only way I see for the cuban State to reach the independency it looks for (as long as I understand its political system) would be creating and maintaining an entire infrastructure (e.g., computers, network devices, operating systems written from scratch, etc.,) inside its political boundaries without any intervention from the outside. Otherwise, the cuban State would be inevitably attached to someone that can differ from it and, that is something unacceptable for the cuban State because would compromise the former idea it initially had about its independency. The cuban State is misunderstanding or confusing the real meaning of free software. The free software is made by people and dedicated to anyone whom might be in need of it, with the hope of being useful and garantee the freedom of computer users. The cuban State introduces free software because it is free in the sense of price, not in the sense of freedom. The cuban State uses free software as another impositions to control what software does people use and which one don't. Some people might see that it is free software anyway, but think again: Shouldn't you have the oportunity to decide what free software to use, and also what community you join to? No one must impose you anything about which social community you participate in, that is a decision you need to take yourself. Sadly, the medium where such free software communities live in (i.e., Internet) is only available for institutions related to cuban State making it very difficult for cuban people without any political relation with the cuban State to make decitions like that and integrate any free software community at all. I strongly beleive that, for the free software to reach cuban people, free software communities must be accessable for cuban people first, so the cuban talent can be added to free software philosophy. However, till the cuban State be controlling inbetween how the cuban people can or cannot integrate an specific way of living to its own, there will be no free software in Cuba, nor any freedom for the cuban people to make use of. It is impossible to defend freedom if one doesn't feel what it is. The cuban State never talks (at least on the public 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 Minister 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 the State. For example, to reach Internet access, cuban people need to be working for the cuban State somehow and that way comply with the politics impossed by it about information management which is strict, at the point of denying service based on restrictions. There is no a legal way for cuban people to contract an Internet service at home. The most 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 can be performed and finding the Modem devices required. Modem devices aren't available on stores. In fact, the few computation hardware available on stores has prices that almost no one can pay for (making this another limitation for average poeple). The migration from privative software to free software must be from people comprehension of what they are doing, not from the impossition of another inquestionable order to comply with. So, people need to feel what freedom is and express it in order to perceive a deep impact in the society. Don't pretend people will use a free software distribution based on a lie, that idea won't last much before it fall into pieces. People need a way of identify themselves apart from any political system in order for them to decide whether or not to be part of one. 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 freedom of expression. For example, When I closed my contract, it was very difficult to find a job as system administrator 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. The reconstruction of oneself is a painful process where care should be taken against craziness and high blood pressures. It is a time of loneliness and waiting one need to face inevitably at some point of life. In that time you compress yourself until you are 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 reaches its end in this word. How strong you are to take the responsability of your own existence and fight against anyone trying to take that from you. In this process, one separates its body from its mind and makes it to act based on a major idea of what one has faith in. Your life, and all it brings to you, is so yours that it is very important that everyone be aware of that, specially in political systems that insist on living your life for you. After two years in this situation, Frank Sueiras (the housband of my ant Carmen L. Delgado) retires himself from working to cuban State and started 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 the air of community remembered me that one experimented inside &TCP;. I saw an opportunity therein and 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 I was receiving as system administrator when worked 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. &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.