MS's biggest risk with open sourcing AoE is that it will open them up to a bunch of lawsuits. They will almost certainly be hit by Patent Vultures trying to sip

MS's biggest risk with open sourcing AoE is that it will open them up to a bunch of lawsuits. They will almost certainly be hit by Patent Vultures trying to siphon off some of the large amounts of money MS has earned. Which is why I think this is almost certainly not gonna happen.