I was mostly talking about countries (or more specifically the US as that's where I know this exists =) ) where there is a government agency to handle it I can definitely see how having a company/organization take care of it might not be as safe
Still have a working 8-bit machine that used a 5.25 inch floppy drive with 2k/track and 40 tracks do the math great little machine if you liked Assembler language or Forth as the MSBasic that came with it sucked big time bug in the string garbage collection routine yeah a memory leak in a 64k address space(it was an easy fix though just had to change one byte in the EPROM) Enjoy the Choice
Age of Empires was first and foremost a game, at which it did an excellent job. We wouldn't be here following in its footsteps had it not been. Thank you Oliver, I'm glad (and so is the team no doubt) to hear you appreciate the efforts behind 0 AD