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# Video credits:
** *ShoeTool* by the Free Software Foundation**
**LENGTH**: 02:05
**PRODUCER & DIRECTOR**: Brad Burkhart
**STORY**: Douglas J. Eboch
*ShoeTool* by the [Free Software Foundation][4] Copyright © 2019 is
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