Andrew Morton (born 1959 in England) is an Australian software engineer, best known as one of the lead developers on the Linux kernel project. He currently maintains a patchset known as the mm tree, which contains not yet sufficiently tested patches that might later be accepted into the official 2.6 kernel maintained by Linus Torvalds.
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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. [1]
In August of 2006, Morton was hired by Google but will continue his current work in maintaining the kernel. [2] [3]
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.
References
- ^ Groklaw, July 19, 2006
- ^ Linux kernel mailing list, August 6, 2006
- ^ Linux Today, August 3, 2006
External links
- Andrew Morton's homepage
- Interview: Andrew Morton; Jeremy Andrews; Kerneltrap; February 14, 2002.
- Interview; Nadia Cameron; LinuxWorld; July 16, 2003.
- Keynote speech; Ottawa Linux Symposium, 2004
- Interview; Ingrid Marson; ZDNet UK; May 05, 2006.
- Audio of Talk at SDForum
- Link to his patches
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