This is still debated in the eve community, I'm in a corp that has some friends that were affected by this upstart. There is not much that happened in the larger scope of BOB, because close to 80% of them joined K (the second largest alliance in the game now) and they hold sovereignty over most of the space controlled by BOB. tbh the Goons and Bob both trade losses every now and then. I'm the same name in eve, contact me if you are looking for more info. The sandbox format of EvE protects it from anyone completely ever controlling it.