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Bill Gates (born Oct. 28, 1955) is the principal co-founder of Microsoft Corp., the world’s
largest personal-computer software company and one of the largest and most influential
technology companies in the world. Since he stepped down as chairman of Microsoft Corp., he has
focused on and contributed billions of dollars to several charities, especially the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation.
Linus Torvalds is a Finnish-born American software engineer most notably known for creating the
Linux kernel, a core system code used in many operating system distributions in use today. He
remains the principal developer of Linux, managing tens of thousands of developers that
contribute code for functions and bug fixes for the kernel. He also created GIT, a distribution
control system widely used by development teams across the globe.