diff --git a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook index 335e136..c8f5cc3 100755 --- a/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook +++ b/Manuals/Tcpi-ug/Preface/overview.docbook @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Since 1999, I've been working for cuban State as Webmaster and - lately as system administrator. On April 2009, I decided to + lately as system administrator. On April 2009, I decided to stop working for cuban State due the increasing feeling of repression I experimented with the restrictions impossed by cuban State in the information area when I tried to find an @@ -16,12 +16,77 @@ 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 as system - administrator. Nevertheless, it is motivating to see how we - are able to realize about such things and take actions thank - to bright minds like 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 a way of living. + administrator, and what could be an alternative way for cubans + inside the island that, like me, feel the same need of + independent expression. + + + + Everything in the human life is directly related to + information. Our actions are based on the information we have. + The information is the base of education and evolution. It is + the only way we can know how to do the right thing for us and + others. I beleive that, in order to provide a good education, + the universal information must be accessable to everyone in a + transparent way, based on facts and without any manipulation + (i.e., in way others can reproduce or verify what the + information refers to). That kind of information is good + information to based our lives on. However, there are also bad + information that we need to differentiate from good + information using our own conscience, not that one from + others. I like the idea of structuring my life over pragmatic + fatcs that I can verify together with a deep faith on what I + am that help me to persist along the duty. The pragmatic fatcs + provides the steps of the stair of my life and the faith, the + force my body needs to climb up the stair. + + + + The years I worked for cuban State coincided with those years + I began to realized myself about the steps of my stair and the + faith on my movements. Lot of contradictions have been + appearing in front of me since then, but a magical thing + inside me (conscience) always tell me not to abandon the must + pure of my self and keep going with this travel I'm still + walking on; even when moving up one step in the stair feels + like rasping the skin of my body against a rough wall. I know + it will heal, but it hurts when happens. The only way to + support the pain is to have faith on the rightness of your + actions. That's the price of don't loosing oneself when + walking over pragmatic facts in a confussed and unarmed + society. That's the price of showing out that truth is inside + us, not outside us. It is the way of showing the truth is in + the one's faith, no matter what it be, but in feeling it + somehow, specially when it comes from understanding what we + are and the immense gift it is to have conscience of our + univeral existence as part of that unknown nature we, as + living humans, cannot ever have conscience of. + + + + I've experimented faith in free software and the philosophy + behind it, but no possible way to manifest it independently + from cuban State. The cuban State controls all the + communication media and very few possibilities are available + for cubans to build up independent collaborative networks + using computers inside the island for sharing information + apart from cuban State restrictions and conditions. One of + these possibilities is the telepohne network the cuban State + provides, which has national scope. Generally, cubans use the + telephone network to talk among themselves, but it is also + possible to use this network to transmit information that + cannot be communicated using the regular method of human + talking. It is possible to attach computers to the telephone + network the cuban State provides to transmit whatever + information a computer can produce (e.g., images, documents, + programs, etc.) from one location in the island to another and + encrypting the information traveling along the wire to + garantee its privacy (e.g., the source computer protects the + information in a way that only the target computer is able to + unprotect. If the information is intercepted by a computer in + the transmission middle, it would be useless for that computer + since only the target can unprotect it). We'll see more about + this later. @@ -92,8 +157,8 @@ The free software isn't free because of its name, but the legal, social, economical and political environment it is used in. If licenses used by software producers to release their - works (either freely or privatively) aren't protected in that - environment somehow, software producers wont be motivated to + works (either freely or privatively) aren't protected somehow + in that environment, software producers wont be motivated to create any software at all (either free or privative). Consider what is happening in Cuba with Windows, the operating system produced by Microsoft corporation: when someone install @@ -301,15 +366,6 @@ - To protect the information traveling through the wire, you can - make use of GnuPGP application to - encrypt data before transmiting it or the - Openssl cryptography toolkit to - encrypt the data transmission itself, both applications are - available inside &TCD;. - - - I beleive that most of problems the cubans 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