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[[Image:Morton.png|thumb|Andrew Morton]]

'''Andrew Morton''' (born [[1959]] in [[England]]) is aan [[Australia|Australian]] [[Software_engineering|software engineer]], best known as one of the lead developers on the [[Linux kernel]] developerproject. 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 2.6 kernel maintained by [[Linus Torvalds]].

Andrew Morton delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 [[Ottawa Linux Symposium]].

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

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He is also known as akpm on the [[LKML]], and his website has his username as akpm.

Andrew Morton now lives in [[Palo Alto, California]].

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