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If it's in the contract not a lot you can do ... https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2018/05/the-dewitt-clause-...

Atlassian Jira’s license, section 3.2:

« (h) use the Software for competitive analysis or to build competitive products; (i) publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Software; or (j) encourage or assist any third party to do any of the foregoing. »

https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement

Am I permitted to say that Jira is a bloated, festering slug of a web app?

Your doorbell is ringing, I would answer it. It’s the police, with a warrant.

Every non-free database management system has this clause.

Because Oracle started it back in the day when they got a negative review in a benchmark test.