If said project has a monopoly marketshare which the parent company can then use to drive profits in its main lines of business, then yes I think it can. In thi

If said project has a monopoly marketshare which the parent company can then use to drive profits in its main lines of business, then yes I think it can. In this case the engineering resources presents a moat of sorts — it means that anybody hoping to meaningfully influence the project or fork it needs to dedicate as many or more resources, which is difficult or impossible for most organizations. Without that, the most that forks can hope to dissent on are things that can easily be toggled on/off or patch parts of the codebase that don’t change often, which is very limiting.