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'''Andrew Keith Paul Morton''' (born 1959 in [[England]]) is an [[Australia]]n [[Software engineering|software engineer]], best known as one of the lead developers of the [[Linux kernel]]. He is currently maintains a patchsetco-maintainer known asof the [[mm tree|''mm'' treeExt3]], whichfile containssystem not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted intoand the officialjournalling Linuxlayer treefor maintainedblock bydevices [[Linus Torvalds]](JBD).

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.

Morton used to maintain a Linux kernel patchset known as the [[mm tree|''mm'' tree]], which contained not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official Linux tree maintained by [[Linus Torvalds]].

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

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In July 2003, Morton joined the [[OSDL|Open Source Development Labs]] under an agreement with his then-employer Digeo Inc. (makers of the [[Moxi]] home entertainment media center), in which OSDL supported Morton's Linux kernel development work while he continued in his official role as principal engineer at Digeo <ref>[http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5459090567.html linuxdevices.com - OSDL adds Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer, to its resources]</ref>.

Since August 2006, Morton has been employed by [[Google]] butand will continuecontinues 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 iswas 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 in the [[SCO v. IBM]] lawsuit contesting [[UNIX]] copyrights. <ref>[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060719122732946 Groklaw], July 19, 2006</ref>