I'm skeptical. If there's anything going on, it's probably more like, "We bought a product from this company and don't want them to disappear in case we need s

I'm skeptical. If there's anything going on, it's probably more like, "We bought a product from this company and don't want them to disappear in case we need support/more product/whatever, so we're going to invest in them so they can stick around."