Pxl_Buzzard

You're right that can happen in most cases, but look at Microsoft's recent acquistions: LinkedIn, GitHub, Xamarin, and game studios like Mojang, Double Fine, Obsidian, and inXile. All well-established brand names that have continued to maintain their own identity and team culture, albeit like any culture I'm sure they've evolved over time.

Tell them what exactly? That's a case of a developer not wanting to continue maintaining an app on the platform. And thankfully WINE and Proton are able to pick up the slack and make the game playable without the support of the devs. Epic still wants to publish Fortnite on iOS, presumably, and in the meantime there isn't a way for them to do so without returning to the 30% cut.

This appears to be a move to meet package managers halfway. Yes, tools like npm and go have great integration with git repositories, but others like NuGet still require a hosting source. Long-term, you could imagine package managers forgoing their own hosting services in favor of letting GitHub be the primary host who takes on the issues of bandwidth, availability, access controls, etc. It's another vector for GitHub to compete in FOSS.

No. So in his proposed system, we would define the procedure for making that information protected. The failure of our current government in this regard is that the default for any information is to classify it. There is more burden to create open documents than classified.

In addition to the other responses, when I was developing a game / game engine we chose Awesomium to render the UI to improve modding capabilities. A lot more people are willing to manipulate a website than some other scripting language. Planetary Annihilation had the same thought as well, if you want to see results on a published title.

According to the article the bots are only doing random picks from a pool of 18 heroes for now. I imagine pick/ban will come with later iterations.

Do you feel that you care about politics if you aren't making your voice heard by voting?

I don't think it's fair to assume an ex-employee knows the details of the software licenses or where to find them. If he knows more concrete details (like a link to the license file) I imagine he would share, but otherwise invoking NDA is a safety measure to avoid sharing potentially incorrect/outdated info.

Getting involved in the community of open source software is a good strategy. If you can prove your technical chops along with being friendly and open to giving and receiving feedback you'll make good professional contacts.

Why would FedEx require users to enable Flash as "run always?" Is there really not a better solution available to simply whitelist their site or be given a pop-up in Chrome asking to enable it temporarily?