I wasn't trying to say that what he did was similar to Avatar and Pocahontas. I was just adding onto Bibendum's post about how nearly everything is an adaptation of something else. I really have no idea what's gone on behind all of these thousands of DOTA mods and such or why Icefrog was the one out of all of them that was…
You can pretty much say that about any artistic medium or anything at all really. For example, Avatar is just an adaptation of Pocahontas. Another example would be someone adapting a wooden chair to have a cushion on it. Anyway, I don't think he would have been able to piggyback himself into Valve. Sounds like some people…