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Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by d4mi3n on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @10:36PM (#6024158)
If you want to go deeper, DOTA was actually originally modeled after a custom game in Starcraft (the first one) called "Aeon of Strife".

http://web.archive.org/web/20090624132302/http://www.gotfrag...

Re:Valve releasing Dota2 for Linux by xentronium on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:26AM (#6025159)
AOS was actually a term that was used before standalone clones of dota started to appear.