> launder money through this companies

That would explain a lot, actually. If so, it'll be interesting to see what happens to the overall software economy when that revenue stream dries up. My wife grew up in Mexico on a border town and told me that the nightclubs in her town were amazing; when she moved to the US, she was disappointed by how drab the nightclubs here were. Later she found out that the border town nightclubs were so extravagant because they were laundering drug money. When they cracked down on the money laundering, the nightclubs reverted back to their natural "drab" state of relying on actual customers to pay the bills.