If the author of this article were &quot;Bob Smith&quot;, the HN readership reaction would be tepid at worst.  Instead, everybody has brought political baggage to this discussion.<p>History will fairly judge Rumsfeld long after he (and most of us) are dead, and not on his app-creation career.  That his new venture into a technical field can&#x27;t be objectively judged (without involving his unrelated past) on a technical site is sad.