And if Woz didn't have Jobs, he'd still be at Hewlett Packard. A thousand people like Jobs at any MBA program? You've got to be joking.
I have no particular love for YC, but let's be fair. They are interested in things people can use, especially web apps. Things it might be possible to make money off, one day. While I love CouchDB and use it every day now - it's not an end user kind of thing. I'm not really sure what it is. Apache is a pretty good home for it, IMO.