Out of Jobs, Gates, and Torvalds, Jobs and Gates are some of the worst people to become part of the tech industry. Microsofts anti-consumer practices lead to it's world dominance and now the world is ruled by closed standards. Here is the Bill Gates copy pasta (and it's all true):

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/3aicvf/what_vill...

The worst thing Torvalds did was say some mean things on a mailing list. It's strange that so many people on HN seem to circle jerk around Bill Gates.