And I think there's a good case to be made for big companies flush with money to throw a bit of that money at open-source products: you're hedging your bets on your future software needs and signalling to vendors that they're not invincible.

Considering Epic's given grants to Blender and Krita while they have many employees using rival 3D and painting tools, it feels pretty strategic. If they never end up using either internally, they still get the good will that it fosters.