Best news I’ve seen for ages!

(Our CEO periodically thinks JIRA is a good idea, now I have a cast iron reason why we can never buy it)

A company can agree to be bullied by its own vendor but it risks customers, employees, and regulatory bodies suing them in turn.

Which is cheaper in the long run?

Massive fines & lawsuits or moving to a privacy-protecting alternative vendor?

Atlassian's competitors now have excellent grounds to take away its market share on a privacy basis alone

AI developers don't open JIRA tickets or create corporate documentation. Only real developers record WIP

Ceterum censeo Atlassian esse delendam.

Shrug.

One sided ToS change. Unfair business practice.
Atlasian is already an edge cases GDPR wise.
And did I mention that in the EU one generally better have a license for your training data or be an academic researcher.

Literally in our startup training data licenses are the biggest budget after employee costs.

@NineStonesClose @nixCraft

One sided ToS changes are something that is frowned upon in many EU MS even in the B2B context. Consequences vary by MS from voiding the contract to damages.

Americans complain that EU rules often hit us big tech most.

Hint: by EU legal standards is companies generally behave like business criminals, on a regular basis. Laws are supposed to hurt and hit the bad guys.
@NineStonesClose @nixCraft @schrotthaufen

The fact that they let you opt out by passing more or off that processing of the PI is prototypical for robbing Atlasian of any A6 argument that this a necessary data @NineStonesClose @nixCraft

Koch Network is funding forced user acceptance policies everywhere, disguised as attack philanthropy & tax evasion.

These folks have never cared about "economic mobility" except their own.

Five Billionaires Pledged $1 Billion To Boost Economic Mobility Using AI

Five of America’s top philanthropists are teaming up for a new venture aimed at helping low-income Americans rise from poverty. An AI giant has signed on to help.

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Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors

The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism.

The Forward (forward.com)

“Attack Philanthropy”: Right-Wing Billionaire Fueled Climate Denial & Conservative Judges, Schools

New revelations about the secretive right-wing billionaire Barre Seid, who donated $1.6 billion to a conservative nonprofit run by Leonard Leo, known as Donald Trump’s “Supreme Court whisperer,” show he has also used his massive fortune to undermine climate science, fight Medicaid expansion and remake the higher education system in a conservative mold. We speak with The Lever’s Andrew Perez, who reported on what Seid calls “attack philanthropy,” after obtaining emails through an open records

Democracy Now! (www.democracynow.org)

Yes, it's crap. And since then, I've not been happy with their products. Laggy, buttons shifting randomly from unannounced update to unannounced update, annoying CLS issues...

Personally, I'd love to go to an alternative, but it was hard enough to get our sales dept on board with any kind of wiki and ticket system as it was...

Based on an unpleasant and borderline *totally* useless trial, who's going to pay?

Companies have a fiduciary responsibility to their customers regarding privacy & confidentiality.

If a vendor is threatening a customer to reveal its data to train AI for all its competitors, it's time to let Atlassian go as a vendor.

Is It Time To Reassess Atlassian (TEAM) After A 49% One-Year Share Price Fall?

If you are wondering whether Atlassian's current share price lines up with its underlying worth, you are not alone. This article focuses squarely on what the numbers say about value. The stock most recently closed at US$128.45, with returns of 14% decline over 7 days, 19.5% decline over 30 days, 17% decline year to date, 49.5% decline over 1 year, 13.7% decline over 3 years and 45.1% decline over 5 years, which has understandably sharpened questions about upside and risk. Recent coverage has...

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Microsoft has less than 4% of its user base pay for Copilot. It's loathed.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-440-billion-wipeout-investors-175614975.html

Microsoft Finally Revealed How Many Paying Copilot Customers It Has. The Answer Was Shocking for More Reasons Than One.

For years, investors have tried to figure out how many users are actually paying for a product that is at the center of Microsoft's artificial intelligence strategy.

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Meta is also getting sued for its AI spyware
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/29/metas-court-losses-spell-trouble-for-ai-research-consumer-safety.html

Using mass layoffs, AI corporations are trying to hide that their AI initiatives are bleeding money and losing them customers & revenue.
Stealing customer data isn't popular.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/18/atlassians_new_data_collection_policy/

Why Atlassian Stock Fell 36% in February

Detailed price information for Atlassian Corp (TEAM-Q) from The Globe and Mail including charting and trades.

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Just a moment...

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Train an AI, layoffs ensue
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/21/atlassian-cuts-layoffs-staff-now-looking-for-work-ai

No matter, no self-hosting licenses were obtainable any more. And it took our CTO weeks of persistent enquiries to find out whether they would provide a GDPA (DSGVO) compliant service.

Only once we got that did we decide to renew. And even then, we looked at alternatives, but none satisfied (then).

Since then - #enshittification , basically.

"Cannot opt out" AI software for customers, creates yet another business to ditch.

MSN

(www.msn.com)

Atlassian Has Lost 75% From Its Peak. Is TEAM Stock Finally a Buy?

Atlassian has lost 75% from its 2021 peak and trades where it did in 2018, despite generating $5.2 billion in annual revenue growing at around 20% a year. The bear case is that AI makes Jira obsolete. The bull case is that AI makes Jira indispensable. With Q3 earnings due April 30, the answer is about to get clearer.

TIKR.com (www.tikr.com)

If a software company dictates to its customers the degree of privacy & confidentiality they're permitted to retain, it is time to cancel a licensing contract.

Oracle is losing money over its AI spyware & getting sued
https://slate.com/technology/2026/03/iran-ai-cbs-oracle-larry-ellison-paramount-warner-bros-trump.html

Larry Ellison's latest craze: Vectorizing all the customers

Comment: Oracle slurps your data whether you like it or not... for the good and bad of the planet

(www.theregister.com)

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Oracle Stock Down 14%. Why Higher Risk Makes $ORCL A Sell

With relatively tepid growth, rising debt, an increasing cash burn rate, soaring capex and reliance on money-losing OpenAI, $ORCL has not earned its premium valuation.

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ORCL Shareholder Alert: Oracle Corporation Securities Class Action Lawsuit Investors With Losses May Join -- The Gross Law Firm

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And #Atlassian refused to provide updates so it could be migrated to a more up-to-date system?