Yes ruined. Instead of having desk jobs these failed business owners could have had a shot at saving the world. The fact is he screwed people.
Indeed, while you are getting your panties in a twist about things you think happened in the 1990s, Gates has saved millions of lives.
Have you considered worrying less about a few capitalists being "ruined" (while living in the world's richest society and consuming a huge proportion of the world's resources) and worrying more about the millions suffering from war, starvation, disease and various other afflictions?
I don't recall any of them being being brought up on anti-trust charges and losing.
And no amount of saving lives wipes away those you ruined.
You want to compare the effects of these lives "ruined" (whose exactly?) with the Chinese workers making your products committing suicide?
Second, Gates wasn't uniquely bad, and he had plenty of equally ruthless rivals including Jobs, Ellison and Noorda. He was, as mentioned, held to much higher standards.
Third, it still shows a profound lack of humanity to think that what was mostly antitrust-theatre has anything like the same importance as real life and death issues in the wider world.
Well fuck off then, we're done. I'm not going to waste my time reiterating Microsoft's crimes to someone's who apparently blind to them and continues to throw out red herrings.