Eric Schmidt resigns from Apple's BOD is Politics how? Take your smug sense of superiority, turn that sumbitch sideways, and stick it up your candy ass.
Your comment is extremely disrespectful, and I believe erroneous. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics , "There is no academic consensus on the exact definition of "Politics" and what counts as political and what does not. Max Weber defined politics as the struggle for power." I found that definition applicable.
Yeah, it's the politics of a technology company's board of directors... and here it is on a site for people interested in starting technology companies.
What, exactly, is your point? This article is a lot more interesting and relevant to entrepreneurs than the one about hacking the firmware of keyboards that you did not highlight.