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==== LinuxTag 2013 ====
The 19th LinuxTag was held from 22 to 25 May 2013 on the Berlin Exhibition Grounds with the motto "In the cloud - triumph of the free software goes on".<ref>Website of LinuxTag 2013 https://www.linuxtag.org/2013/en.html</ref> Again it stood under the patronage of Cornelia Rogall-Grothe, the Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology.

It was also the premiere of the ''Open IT Summit'', which was organized as a parallel conference at LinuxTag of the [[Open Source Business Alliance]] (OSBA) and Messe Berlin with the goal to discuss the topic open source in the business environment. Additionally the OpenStack Day took place in cooperation with the OpenStack Foundation as a first major sub-conference on the subject [[OpenStack]] in Europe. The Foundation has its headquarters in the U.S. and sees itself as a global reservoir of the same name, scalable cloud management platform.

Keynotes were given by kernel developer Matthew Garrett on the subject of [[UEFI|Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)]] and Secure Boot, and Benjamin Mako Hill, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who marked so-called anti-features as unacceptable, where manufacturers build usage restrictions into devices.