On: Sometimes the bug isn't in your code, it's in the CPU

[phillmv]

Only two of those people are even on the same order of magnitude of influence.

[masklinn → phillmv]

I'd say three, although the work of the third one (which I'd assert is Theo) is more obscure it's pretty darn critical and influential[0]. Unless the two you were thinking of are Linus and Theo?

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSSH

[phillmv → masklinn]

Oh true that, I'd forgotten all about how SSH wasn't originally Free.