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FrontDoor was one of the most popular mailers in the FidoNet-compatible networks in the 1990s acting as the physical representation
of the written network node connection and mail handling standards. It was a DOS-based shareware written by Joaquim Homrighausen (alias JoHo).
The FrontDoor system contained a Mailer, an Editor, a Terminal, a serial port device driver and configuration utilities.
FrontDoor has been written by Joaquim Homrighausen and Peter Stewart, they later split there ways.
Joaquim worked on on FrontDoor, and Peter names his product InterMail.
Please read here the real story how FrontDoor has been developed.
With thanks to the Wikipedia article.
December 93'
INTRODUCTION
This message is actually a follow-up to Clive Flory's six-part
story on FrontDoor v2.0 in FDECHO and attempts to fill the gap
from the initial start of the FrontDoor idea up to Mr.
Homrighausen's leaving for Australia.
> THE BACKGROUND
>
> About 3 or more years ago a Mr. Peter Stewart was
> approached by Joaquim to be involved in developing an
> E-Mail system. Peter was involved as a full partner and
> they jointly developed the Front Door package up to the
> release of ver 1.99c.
>
> The development of FD was along the following lines. Peter Stewart
> developed
>
> The Interface
> the Mailer
> the Nodelist compiler
> and the Editor
>
> Joaquim developed Front Doors Setup program and some of the
> Protocols.
>
> The FUNDING for this development came from a number of sources.
> It was not funded by Joaquim. At the end of the 1.99c development
> JH proceeded to end the partnership with Peter Stewart.
>
> Through David Nugent I invited Joaquim to Australia to do some
> software development. At this stage I had other projects I was
> interested in doing . When Joaquim came to Australia he convinced
> me into funding the next version of Front Door. His convincing
> arguments were that he or at least James had about 600 orders ready
> to be fulfilled IF ONLY WE HAD VER 2.00.
>
> We felt that Front Door should be developed along commercial lines
> with a lot more commercial features and requirements than it had
> at the time.
>
> I had at this stage already PAID for Joaquims airfare to come to
> Australia. For the next 12 months I PAID Joaquim a weekly WAGE
> while he developed what became to be called Front Door ver 2.00.
>
> Over the past 5 months I have since discovered that there are at
> least FIVE other people and companies that have been in my
> situation with Joaquim. These people and companies have over the
> past 3 to 4 years lent him money or funded the development of Front
> Door. On every occasion legal documents were signed and verbal
> promises made and on EVERY occasion Joaquim has broken his
> promise. Why does He now live in Luxembourg ? Because the legal
> jurisdiction makes it a very expensive exercise for anyone chasing
> him to recover monies.
The Beginning of Front Door
Some 5 years ago, back in the summer of 1987 I came across a very
small FidoNet utility to be used with Fido v11w. The purpose of
this utility was to circumvent the annoying need for a user
dialing into a Fido v11w Bulletin Board to have to press the
space bar twice after the initial connect in order to permit the
Fido v11w software to recognize the appropriate baud rate of the
incoming call, i.e. 300 baud, 1200 baud, or the enormous speed of
then 2400 baud.
That utility software, written by some fellows in Stockholm,
Sweden, was appropriately called FrontDoor. As it turned out, one
of the authors was a young man by the name of Joaquim
Homrighausen.
FrontDoor was neither a mailer, nor an editor, nor anything of
the sort. It was just a small, but useful utility. At the time,
the only mailer available to the FidoNet community was Thom
Henderson's SeaDog. And the only reliable BBS software was Tom
Jenning's Fido v11w.
To make a long story short, I communicated with Homrighausen on
several occasions via FidoNet over the following weeks/months and
was finally approached by Joaquim Homrighausen with his request
that he wanted to come to the United States for a lengthy stay.
I offered my help and the help of my company AMS Applied Micro
Systems, Inc. of Miami, Florida and also suggested to him to
think about developing the FrontDoor utility into a full-fledged
commercial product, a mailer in direct competition to Thom
Henderson's SeaDog.
Joaquim at the time indicated that he was the sole author and
holder of all rights to the FrontDoor product. He also stated
that developing a full-fledged mailer as suggested would be a
matter of a mere 3 months from start to finish.
Based on that projection, I suggested to Joaquim that he needed
enough monies to be able to survive in the United States for 2
months. Additional needs could be met by programming jobs he
could complete for my company on a pay-as-you-go basis. Also,
that way, equipment would be available to him to complete his
FrontDoor project.
The Initial Months in Miami
Shortly thereafter, Joaquim contacted me with more definite
travel plans and set the date for arrival in Miami, FL for early
fall 1987, after leaving his job at Ericsson AB in
Stockholm/Sweden.
After some additional FidoNet traffic resolving such matters as
living quarters, type of clothing required in Miami, computer
equipment needs, etc., Joaquim informed me that he would be
arriving together with a certain Peter Stewart who had "asked" to
also be permitted to come to the United States.
Homrighausen assured me that Stewart was an accomplished
programmer (.. but not as proficient as he, Homrighausen, and
that both of them would be arriving with at least $ 2,000 in cash
each, as suggested, to survive the initial two months period.
When I went to the airport to pick up Homrighausen and Stewart,
there were a total of four people: Joaquim Homrighausen, not even
20 years old - and his belongings, all stuffed into one single
duffle bag - , Peter Stewart - considerably older than
Homrighausen (early thirties) - with his duffle bag, and two
additional young boys, Peter Stewart's son and that boy's friend.
The only thing they did not have was MONEY to live on!
It did not take very long to find an initial place to stay for
these fellows. However, transportation was an immediate problem,
especially since public transportation in Miami is not too good
and also since my company's office was located in an industrial
area with no access to any public transportation. And neither one
of them had enough money to be able to purchase a used car for
basic transportation as had been suggested. As a matter of fact,
there was hardly enough money to purchase food for all of them.
So, payments by AMS to Homrighausen and Stewart began under an
agreement that repayment would come as soon as FrontDoor v2.0
could be sold and that AMS would retain an exclusive interest in
the FD Project.
However, problems surfaced almost without delay. Since Peter
Stewart brought his son and that boy's friend, Peter was somewhat
handicapped and unable to devote his entire attention to trying
to finish a project in order to make money on the finished
product.
Meanwhile, both fellows had been equipped with identical AT
clones with PRIAM drives and Everex external modems. In addition,
Homrighausen was equipped with an XT-clone and Everex 2400 baud
modem and a new phone number for the FrontDoor BBS under the
nodenumber 1:135/20.
Now, rather than devoting their entire available time to the
completion of the FrontDoor product, Peter Stewart spent a month
or so completing a Terminal Communications Package for a company
called Scandinavian PC Systems, while Joaquim Homrighausen spent
his time on attempts to crack Thom Henderson's SeaDog so that
copies of the same serial number of Seadog could talk with each
other.
When Homrighausen finally cracked SeaDog, he placed the
appropriate messages citing details of the patch into the SeaDog
echo - using a handle, of course!
Progress on FrontDoor was next to none.
Homrighausen and Stewart and boys showed up at the office around
7 o'clock in the evening and left in the early morning hours
after a night's play/hacking, running up a phone bill with Long
Distance calls and creating a tremendeous additional electric
bill by operating the airconditioning system for the entire
office building at full blast.
Soon it became apparent that initial goals for FrontDoor could not
be kept.
More Time Wasted
Many discussions ensued between myself and Joaquim Homrighausen
as the self- styled leader of the Homrighausen/Stewart duo as to
the progress of FrontDoor - or lack thereof.
Promises were made and broken with never ending regularity and
blame was usually assigned by Joaquim Homrighausen to Peter
Stewart's lack of progress which in turn prevented Homrighausen
from completing his task. Equally, blame was assigned to the
presence of these two young boys and their diverting Stewart's
attention from the real needs of the job on hand.
So it went for several months until, a round-trip to Sweden later
(of course paid for by my company) Homrighausen and Stewart were
back in Miami, this time to finish the job on hand (so
Homrighausen said)!
By now summer had approached, more support monies had been spent,
computer equipment had been upgraded: But, STILL no FrontDoor!
Oh, there were some test versions, but they did crash with never
failing regularity!
The night sessions at the office continued unabated and with it
the high electric bills and even higher phone bills! Yet, mind
you, these phone bills were not for outgoing BBS calls made from
the FrontDoor BBS, nor were they made for the purpose of testing
the FrontDoor package! Mostly, these calls were made by Joaquim
Homrighausen calling BBS systems all over the United States as
well as untold overseas calls!
Meanwhile, Joaquim Homrighausen completed ONE assignment for AMS
Applied Micro Systems, Inc. by salvaging a lost LOTUS v2.0 data
file for one of my company's clients. The job was completed
within 14 hours and a 70% credit for the monies received from
that customer for this job were posted to Homrighausen's account,
as agreed upon beforehand.
Some months later, Peter Stewart completed a rather extensive
assignment by rewriting and vastly improving the substantial
portion of a proprietary software package originally written by
an AMS client for that client's proprietary use. As before, 70%
of the proceed received from that billing were credited to
Stewart's account.
Summer had gone and fall had almost passed when the first release
of FrontDoor v2.0 (yes, version 2.0) was released to some Beta
Testers. However, the choice of Beta Sites selected by
Homrighausen was soo poor, that one of these testers
inadvertendly made the software available for downloading from
his BBS.
Against my objections, Homrighausen dispensed with a closed Beta
Test and opened Beta Testing to the public at large, creating the
very first of many more NON-COMMERCIAL versions of FrontDoor
v2.0.
FrontDoor v2.0 had now been in development for more than one year
from the arrival of Joaquim Homrighausen and Peter Stewart in
Miami - and still no firm release date in sight, nor an end to
the ever increasing list of software/ hardware needs/demands nor
housing, transportation and basic utilities support by the
"developer".
At about that time, the welcome mat of the "dynamic duo" (as they
were referred to internally) had been withdrawn from the office
of AMS and Homrighausen and Stewart were invited to find
appropriate housing on their own as well as find a different
source for their basic means of support.
Homrighausen and Stewart left Miami to fly to Sweden where they
completed an arrangment with Scandinavian PC Systems causing
funding for the FrontDoor Project to be resumed by Scandinavian
PC Systems.
The change was reflected in the copyright of the next Beta
Release of FrontDoor v2.0 which henceforth included Scandinavian
PC Systems.
Several weeks and several Beta Releases later, Messrs
Homrighausen and Stewart formed a US Corporation called InterZone
Software with its seat in Miami, Florida. Homrighausen was
President and Stewart functioned as Vice President. InterZone
Software had no assets other than these two individuals, a new
copyright in the FrontDoor v2.0 Beta software and a bank account
at Barnett Bank of South Florida with more or less a $ -0-
balance.
The Rent for the Homrighausen/Stewart apartment of about $
800.00/month as well as the phone and electric bill for these
fellows was still being paid by AMS - not even mentioning the
initial rent deposit of $ 1,600 nor the deposit required for the
power company or the phone company.
While FrontDoor v2.0 Beta was out in public for "testing",
Homrighausen also created the Trans Altantic Project (otherwise
known as TAP) - with the initial months of TAP phone bills being
paid by AMS!
By now, according to Mr. Homrighausen, the release of the final
version of FrontDoor v2.0 was imminent - "just around the
corner".
That darn Car!
Meanwhile, if for no other reason than to facilitate the immense
amount of travel required by the "developer" Joaquim Homrighausen
and to cut down on wasted time, thus speeding the release of that
"final version", AMS made a used VW Rabbit available to Mr.
Homrighausen. He promptly totalled that car - of all places in a
parking lot - and AMS even had to pay for the tow truck to haul
the Rabbit to the junk yard.
That car was followed by an old Ford Mercury - basic
transportation, no more! The fate of that Ford was equally
glorious: Messrs Homrighausen and Stewart had the car towed
from in front of their apartment and never bothered to
retrieve the vehicle from the towing firm. Scratch a second
car!!
Counting Backwards!
By now - spring and summer had come and gone AGAIN and FrontDoor
v2.0 was no closer to final release than before.
There always was this new "feature", this additional tweaking of
speed, the new this and the new that! And, of course, every new
gizmo "broke" at least one old one, if not more. So, instead of
coming closer to release, the Beta Testing continued.
As a matter of fact, the FidoNet community became rather annoyed
with Mr. Homrighausen and mandated FrontDoor v2.0 to meet certain
minimum FidoNet FTSC standards before release and use within
FidoNet could be condoned.
The FTSC further strongly suggested to indicate that the current
version of FrontDoor v2.0 was indeed a BETA version. Hence, Mr.
Homrighausen changed the version number to FrontDoor v1.99.
Several releases of FD v1.99 followed in rather rapid succession,
each containing more and more problems with the SEALINK protocol
and some other "undocumented features".
But, at least now, the version count was more correct since the
beta releases started with FD v1.99, then FD v1.99a, followed by
FD 1.99b and finally, many, many months later FD v1.99c.
Money, Money, Money!!
Meanwhile, the Homrighausen/Stewart duo had changed apartments
and moved into better quarters.
There was enough money from somewhere for Homrighausen to invest
in new equipment. While Peter Stewart was still working on his
old AT clone originally obtained from AMS, Homrighausen had
replaced that machine with a brand-new 80386-based computer, VGA
display and US Robotics HST modem, one for his machine and a
second one for his BBS.
But, curiously enough, there was not a cent to pay back the
advances from AMS - which by now had stopped dead in their
tracks!
There even was enough money to purchase a brand new car: a Ford -
financed via Ford Motor Credit!
I had no idea about the car until the day that Ford Motor
Credit's collection department called me, demanding payment of
the seriously past due/delinquent installments! Not even the
first payment had been paid on time! The reason for Ford Motor
Company calling me was simple: My company had been given as
credit reference and place of employment.
Those blasted "Officials"
It should/could have happened much earlier, but finally did
happen: The US Immigration Department became curious about Mr.
Homrighausen and started to inquire at Mr. Homrighausen's home
address - which strange enough was the office address of my
company, AMS Applied Micro Systems, Inc.!
After all, Mr. Homrighausen was still in the United States on a
B-1 visa. For any layman not familiar with US Government
terminology, a B-1 visa is a Tourist visa allowing a maximum stay
of 6 months with one possible extension of 6 months. Gainful
employment or other income producing work is strictly prohibited
under US immigration law to the holder of a B-1 visa. And any
company or individual granting employment to such a "tourist" is
subject to a $ 10,000.00 fine per illegal alien! And for all
intents and purposes, Mr. Homrighausen was an illegal alien under
the law of the United States.
Mr. Stewart's case was not much better, except for the fact that
his grandfather somewhere had been a US citizen and thus Peter
had a more "legitimate" claim to a stay in the US than Joaquim
Homrighausen. Also, Peter never made any waves to speak of, left
the country when needed to obtain a new visa and quietly worked
and tried to take care of his son whom he had brought back from
Sweden on one of the several trips he had made back home!
The Jailbird!
Joaquim Homrighausen always appeared to have a fascination for
the fast lane and "action"!
Hence, it was no surprise that he took a liking to Chris Irwin,
the developer of D'Bridge, equally residing in Miami. Over a
bottle of Vodka and assorted other strong booze, Joaquim and
Chris often exchanged "ideas". Those exchanges usually lasted
until one of them finally gave up too drunk to continue.
The sessions were most often noticed in Miami's Net 135 since
Chris Irwin usually felt an urgent need to place rather obscene
traffic in Net 135 internal traffic.
At times these sessions were apparently of some use since Irwin
and Homrighausen developed some ideas from these sessions and
implemented these ideas in the Beta Version of D'Bridge or the
respective Beta Version of FrontDoor. Yet, it will probably never
be known who stole what idea from whom since both guys were
usually too drunk to remember!
Also, Iwrin and Homrighausen had a strong sense of competition in
that both intended to be the first in the final release of their
respective product! As it turned out, Iwrin made that release,
Homrighausen did not!
It was - to the best of my recollection - the release of D'Bridge
that caused Homrighausen's abrupt change of fate as the direct
result of yet another drinking binge between Irwin and
Homrighausen! This time, however, the drinking binge ended on a
rather serious note withe the arrest and jailing of Joaquim
Homrighausen.
Florida law is rather simple in that it is against the law for
minors to purchase and/or consume alcohol. Hence, many
restaurants and bars often "card" individuals who look too young.
While Irwin was over 21 years of age - Homrighausen was still a
minor, i.e. less than 21 years of age! Yet, when "carded" he
produced a faked ID he had created while in Sweden at Ericsson
AB.
Apparently the innkeeper became suspicious and refused to sell
additional alcohol to Homrighausen, especially since he was also
already rather obviously drunk at this ealry hour of the morning
- around 2 o'clock! Now, NOBODY denies anything to Mr. Joaquim
Homrighausen and thus Mr. Homrighausen became very loud and very
obnoxious. The innkeeper asked Homrighausen to leave and when
Homrighausen refused, he called the police.
When the police arrived, Homrighausen had just left the bar but
was still stopped by the police. When asked for identification,
he produced his falsified Swedish Driver's license. The police
did not accept that document and instead arrested Homrighausen
for public drunkeness, disturbing the peace and producing a
falsified identification. Because of that last item, the
falsified identification, Homrighausen was delivered to Miami's
Dade County Jail and booked on criminal charges!
Being allowed one phone call from jail, Homrighausen called me at
about 4 o'clock in the morning asking for my help. By now he was
somewhat more sober, especially since the booking procedure of
any US jail is rather degrading, especially the body search
conducted while stark naked!
During a flury of phone calls with some members of Miami's Net
135, and especially one SysOp who also is a guard at that same
jail, I was able to find out that Homrighausen had been booked on
criminal charges and not just the charge of being drunk. Had he
just been brought to jail for being drunk, he would have been let
go the very next morning. But, this way, there was no releasing
him until he appeared before a judge the next afternoon for his
initial hearing.
The next afternoon, at about 2 o'clock, a rather quiet Joaquim
Homrighausen was led from jail in chains, chained to at least 50
other criminals into a Court Room adjacent to that jail. Peter
Stewart and I were there and with the help of a public defender
were able to convince the judge that the police had made a
mistake and misread a Swedish Library Card for a false
identification.
As a result, a trial date was set for Joaquim Homrighausen and
Homrighausen was released into the custody of Peter Stewart
pending his appearance at trial some months later.
While this might sound inconsequential to the casual reader, such
a "jail term" had some serious consequences for Mr. Homrighausen.
His Tourist visa was about to expire and an extension was needed.
However, part of the extension procedure is the completion of
several forms under oath, containing among others the question:
Have you ever been jailed?
Homrighausen could not afford to lie on this question since
Miami's Dade County Court System has rather close ties with US
Immigration and Tourist visa extensions are routinely checked
against arrest/jail records. Had Homrighausen lied on the
application, he would have been caught and most likely deported.
Had he not lied, his extension would not have been granted! So,
in either case, it was time to leave the United States and go
elsewhere!
The End in Miami: Moving to the Promised Land
The "promised land" for Joaquim Homrighausen turned out to be
Australia and his association with Clive Flory and Clive's
company - which no longer exists in no small part thanks to
Joaquim Homrighausen's near insatiable appetite for money.
But, before Homrighausen could leave, he had to sever his
relationship with his former partner, Peter Stewart and remove
himself from the presidency of InterZone Software. Equally, the
question of who owns what of the FrontDoor code had to be
settled!
Peter Stewart, who had some time ago given up on his partner
Joaquim Homrighausen, could not have been happier.
It was Peter who had brought Scandinavian PC Systems into the
fold. It was Peter who always had to talk to Scandinavian PC
Systems and explain why the Front Door Project was so far behind
schedule and it was equally Peter who finally saw his chance to
amicably break this partnership that had gone so far astray.
The two partners agreed to part with identical source code of
FrontDoor's version 1.99c and all unpublished improvements
thereto. Homrighausen and Stewart would continue their respective
developments, except Peter Stewart would do so under the name
InterMail in close cooperation with Scandinavian PC Systems and,
of course, his own company, InterZone Software. As the
indebtedness to AMS was fairly clear and had always been kept
separate between the two individuals, each individual would of
course continue to be liable for his own indebtedness. And since
Peter Stewart had been making all car payments on that new Ford,
he would also keep that car.
Most of these developments happened near overnight and one day
Joaquim Homrighausen was gone, never to be seen in Miami again.
Money? What Money?!
Now, interestingly enough, while still in Miami hard at work on
FrontDoor, Homrighausen developed a flurry of utilities for use
within FidoNet. Most of these utilities were made available free
of charge to the FidoNet community, with the exception, of
course, of the TosScan Echomail utility.
That utility was written entirely during the time that FrontDoor
v2.0 was allegedly being developed.
TosScan turned out to be a good product and a success in the
FidoNet community. And since it is a product that was SOLD, not
given away, it also created income!
One should assume that at least some of that income would go to
repayment of debt. Well, not a cent did - not to this very day!
> THE CURRENT LEGAL POSITION
>
> So what is the current situation with front Door and myself?
> Well the answer is as follows
>
> a. Joaquim has been stopped from using the following
> components in Front Door
>
> 1. FDCD (the communications driver)
> 2. The Install programme
> 3. The manual/documentation or any
> derivation of the manual
>
> b. I currently own the name Front Door for the area of
> Australia. As a result no one will be allowed to use the name
> in a product or in any literature , advertising etc.
>
> c. I retain , pursuant to signed documents and due to a
> legally enforceable agreement between Joaquim and myself the
> exclusive distribution and liscenscee of the Front Door packaging.
> At this point in time we are in dispute with Joaquim and are
> currently enforcing our rights in the Australian Courts. Joaquim
> has elected NOT to come within the jurisdiction of the Australian
> Courts. Given the amount of expenditure and investment made by
> myself we herby give notice that Joaquim is NOT entitled to give
> licenses or sell Front Door in Australia, New Zealand or anywhere
> else in the world without my express consent.
While I personally and in my capacity as resident of AMS Applied
Micro Systems, Inc. challenge the accuracy of the foregoing
statement(s) in that they patently ignore the rights of AMS
Applied Micro Systems, Inc. to the FrontDoor Product as well as
the rights possibly granted to Scandinavian PC Systems for the
use of that same name, I CONCURR WITH THE VERY SPIRIT OF THIS
STATEMENT and state that I myself as well as my company will
fully cooperate with Mr. CLive Flory in this endeavour.
> In the event that any person purports to hold such a
> license or Attempts to distribute , market or sell Front
> Door, legal proceedings will be issued against them and
> this letter or Electronic mail will be used as proof of
> PRIOR knowledge.
see above! - Also, the causal reader should be aware that Clive
and I are already in direct communication on this matter in an
effort to successfully coordinate matters.
> d. As far as we can tell it is unclear as to WHO REALLY
> OWNS the rights to Front Door. It would appear that the
> rights are held by more than one person and company that
> aided in the development and funding of the product.
Absolutely CORRECT! The question really arises if Homrighausen
could give away that very same right to a single product a total
of at least three times: First to AMS, then to SPCS and then to
Clive Flory!
> THE ALTERNATIVE (...Excerpts)
>
> I have however chosen to market a product called INTERMAIL.
> Intermail is a package written and developed by Mr. Peter
> Stewart who as you recall was the joint developer of Front
> Door up to version 1.99c.
see some earlier comments
> In my brief association with Peter over the past 4 months I
> have found him to be an absolute gentleman and honourable in
> all his dealings.
While you have only known Peter by "modem/phone/fax", I have
known Peter in person for many years now and also claim a small
responsibility for introducing him to his wife Michele -
appropriately enough, of course - via FidoNet, especially since
Michele was - and still is - a FidoNet Sysop in South Florida's
Net 1:369.
Peter is a rather quiet fellow, the total opposite to his former
partner Joaquim Homrighausen! Not only is Peter an excellent and
most consciencious programmer/developer, he is also a rather
honest and straight forward and responsible individual!
It is true that Peter still owes me and/or my company a great sum
of money. However, he has submitted his business plan, has
discussed his position - in short, he has been and is straight
forward and honest! Truly, I am not concerned with Peter. He will
make it and will pay back what he owes - right down to the last
cent!
I wished I could say the same for Mr. Homrighausen who never
deemed it necessary to reply to many requests for a payment plan
and/or similar acknowlegment. Homrighausen has simply been
absolutely quiet - officially, that is.
However, he has made a rather telling move through James Smith
and others in Zone 1 attempting to have me removed from the
FDECHO after stating my claims in that echo about one year ago.
Conclusion
It is rather sad when the actions of a rather intelligent
individual become such that one has to truly doubt his integrity
and honesty, especially when this very individual could use his
many talents in a much more constructive manner than to try and
"screw" his fellow men out of money!
Well, Joaquim Homrighausen through his actions to date has left
me no other choice but to believe that his motives were anything
but honorable. Hence, I will use my best efforts in cooperation
with the other aforementioned companies and/or individuals to
stop this type of behavior and/or action and to force repayment,
if possible, by any means available within the European Community
or elsewhere.
Yes, Joaquim - and I know you are reading this - I am in the
process of enlarging my scope from the US to Germany, more
particularly to that part of Germany that used to be called East
Germany. And Germany is not only a neighbor to Luxemburg, but,
just like Luxemburg, a member of the EEC.
And AMS being here in Europe AND in the United States, SPCS being
located in Scandinavia and Clive FLory and Dave Nugent being
located in Australia, where are you going to run to now?
If you wish to reach me in the US, you may do so via 1:135/8.1.
If you wish to reach me in Germany, please do so via 2:241/4000.
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To all others, my apologies for this long history of FrontDoor.
But it was about time that the whole story be told!
Thank you for listening
Peter Adenauer
President
AMS Applied Micro Systems, Inc.
Bellville, TX (USA) and Dresden (FRG)
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