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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born [[1959]] in [[England]]) is an [[Australia|Australian]] [[Software_engineering|software engineer]], best known as one of the lead developers onof the [[Linux kernel]] project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the [[mm tree|''mm'' tree]], which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6Linux kerneltree maintained by [[Linus Torvalds]].

In the late 1980s, he was one of the partners of a company in [[Sydney, Australia]] that produced a kit computer called the [[Applix 1616]], as well as a hardware engineer for the (now-defunct) Australian gaming equipment manufacturer [[Keno Computer Systems]]. He holds an [[Honours_degree#Honours_degrees_and_academic_distinctions|honours degree]] in [[electrical engineering]] from the [[University of New South Wales]] in [[Australia]].

In 2001, Andrew Morton and his family moved from [[Wollongong, New South Wales]] to [[Palo Alto, California]].

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Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by [[Google]] but will continue his current work in maintaining the kernel. <ref>[http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/6/16 Linux kernel mailing list], August 6, 2006</ref> <ref>[http://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/2006080303126NWCYKN Linux Today], August 3, 2006</ref>

Andrew Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 [[Ottawa Linux Symposium]]. He is also a featured speaker at [[MontaVista]] Software's Vision 2007 Conference. <ref>[http://www.mvista.com/vision/index.html MontaVista VISION 2007 Embedded Linux Developers Conference<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

He is an expert witness for [[IBM]] in the [[SCO v. IBM]] lawsuit contesting [[UNIX]] copyrights. <ref>[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060719122732946 Groklaw], July 19, 2006</ref>