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- <h6>Freeside Inc. The Company</h6>
-  <p>Freeside Inc. started as a tiny drop of imagination and the need for keeping 
-    track of client records all at the hands of an ingenious Open-Source pr<img src="imgs/freesideworld.gif" width="229" height="256" class="rightFloat">ogrammer 
-    Ivan Kohler<br>
-  </p>
+ <h6>About Freeside Internet Services, Inc. and the Freeside project</h6>
+ <img src="imgs/freesideworld.gif" width="229" height="256" class="rightFloat">
+  <p>Freeside had its start as an internal application for a large regional ISP in 1996 and 1997.  In 1998, after obtaining copyright to the code from his former employer, Ivan Kohler releaesd the first open-source verson of the code.
+  Growing demand for commercial support and services prompted him to start providing Freeside consulting full-time in 2001.
+  <p>Freeside Internet Services, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and now has a full-time staff of several programmers.  The company provides consulting services, pre-configured hardware, support, customization and training for the Freeside billing system and other aspects of ISP and network operations.  Freeside Internet Services, Inc. is a privately held California corporation.
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+  <table>
+    <tr>
+      <td><img src="imgs/haha-ivan.jpg"></td>
+      <td>
+        <b>Ivan Kohler</b><br>
+        <i>President and Janitor</i>
+      </td>
+
+      <td>
+        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+      </td>
+
+      <td><img src="imgs/haha-jeff.jpg"></td>
+      <td>
+        <b>Jeff Finucane</b><br>
+        <i>Software Developer Extraordinaire</i>
+      </td>
+
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
+      <td>
+        &nbsp;<br>&nbsp;
+      </td>
+    </tr>
+
+    <tr>
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+      <td><img src="imgs/animelogo.a.jpg"></td>
+      <td>
+        <b>Rebecca Cardennis</b><br>
+        <i>Designer Emeritus</i>
+      </td>
+
+      <td>
+        &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+      </td>
+
+      <td><img src="imgs/red-jx.jpg"></td>
+      <td>
+        <b>Julia Murillo</b><br>
+        <i>Shipping and Receiving, Interim director of music selection</i>
+      </td>
+
+  </table>
+
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