Atlassian vs GNU

Atlassian is an Australian enterprise software company that develops products geared towards software developers and project managers. Atlassian is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. On February 14, 2014, Atlassian president Jay Simons announced the opening of an Austin office that will eventually employ 600 people. Atlassian was founded in 2002 by Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. In 2006, Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurs of the Year.

GNU i The combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel is commonly known as Linux. Development of the GNU operating system was initiated by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a project called the GNU Project which was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups by Richard Stallman.