David O Toole

David O Toole was contacted by the US Government regarding his lisp hacking.

He posted a vague warning about it on the lispgames mailing list and mentioned on the IRC that "it was all over".

All his blogs, twitter and any traces of his code have disappeared from the internet.

I've been unable to contact him in the last few months.

>>8
Blocky looks quite interesting. I first noticed the screenshots and immediately thought of CLIM and OpenGenera. Looking back at the blog, it seems they are some in the influences that led to writing of blocky. Maybe I'll play with it when I have the time.
>>12
He appears to be afraid of being in contact with commercial entities as to avoid being trapped by some IP laws/shrink-wrap EULAs (think patents, NDAs and non-compete clauses). I figure it would be a wise thing to do for an open-source developer depending on the laws of the country in which you reside/have citizenship on. It's the same kind of paranoia that rms would have you going when using mono or c# (or anything from MS) - to avoid getting trapped by patents.