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 doesn'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, while the cuban State be inbetween controlling how the cuban people can or cannot integrate a specific way of living, there will not be free software in Cuba, nor any freedom for the cuban people to make use of. Another popular affair frequently mentioned by the cuban State information media is related to migration from privative to free software. The migration from privative software to free software must be initiated from people deepest comprehension of what they are doing, not from impositions of another inquestionable order everybody need to comply with. So, people need to feel what freedom is and express it in order to perceive a deep impact of free software in cuban society. We cannot pretend people will use a free software distribution based on a lie or a distorted idea of freedom, that idea won't last much before it fall itself into pieces. People need a way of identifying themselves apart from any social/political system in order for them to be able of decide whether or not to be part of one. It is impossible to defend freedom if one doesn't have felt what it is. The cuban State never talks (at least on the 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, Communication devices like modems, switches and routers are available to institutions related to cuban State only. and the way information is exchanged with public services available on different networks like Internet.