SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

Post by beambot » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:34 PM UTC

aftbit wrote: post #62

ptorrone wrote: post #21

hi, phil here — post on adafruit here: https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teens... i’ll stop back and answer anything (sparkfun will not?). sparkfun is the exclusive maker and distributor of the closed-source teensy and informed us we will not be able to purchase the teensy. this happened after i sent an email reporting the founder, nate, for multiple harassing actions directed at limor, including…

Oh boy, just what we need. Drama between open hardware vendors. Neither of these responses feels like the complete story to me. I hope there's a path forward to heal this rift in one way or another. Both SparkFun and Adafruit are doing amazing things for the community and I would love to see both continue to thrive.

Post by relaxing » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:36 PM UTC

RobotToaster wrote: post #159

vegadw wrote: post #130

I'm still trying to put all the pieces together, but https://digipres.club/@discatte/115588660312186707 sure paints Adafruit as the bad party here, though I'm open to information which shows otherwise to understand better.

This adds some more context I guess https://chaos.social/@North/115605819126197877 Honestly the whole thing seems like everyone overreacting on both sides. Accusing someone is "doxing" because they used your first name?

Post by monooso » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:38 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #104

ptorrone wrote: post #71

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speech to text, with a newborn, replying to these and feeding her. i cannot purchase shift keys if they are on sparkfun, yes.

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Post by oytis » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:39 PM UTC

SiempreViernes wrote: post #200

oytis wrote: post #160

Why there is often so much drama whenever something open source or community is involved? The best we've got from the industry so far was Astronomer affair.

It's just a selection effect, the culture of openness means you are much more likely to see the drama. That said, why does the Musk vs. Zuckerberg cage fight beef not spring to mind? Or Musk beefing just about any random day anyway? Not to mention the whole "OpenAI going full corpo" drama, that was arguably a much bigger deal, something actually important instead of this small social media debacle.

Post by relaxing » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 4:40 PM UTC

torginus wrote: post #100

skybrian wrote: post #45

I don’t know what’s going on, but I checked what Teensy is up to these days and it seems that last March they decided to outsource manufacturing and direct sales to SparkFun: https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/sparkfun-to-manufac...

Drama aside, why would someone prefer Adafruit or Sparkfun products over much cheaper whitelabel alternatives from China? A lot of those come with very good support and communities as well.