This would be exactly what I would be concerned about to be honest. I am not a fan of LL purchasing resident businesses in order to compete with residents in any way, shape, manner, fashion, or form. Any time Linden Lab acquires a resident run business or portion of such it can create instability in both the in-world economy and the established user-base of Second Life as it can be seen to create a sort of preference in the market. Given the possible harm such actions can have I do hope that they looked into such potentialities before making this acquisition.