The URL for this page is very generic and bound to become a 404 page. Thinking about URLs is important to prevent link rot.
Almost like it's by design.
SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#12Why publish this publicly? Now I wonder what really happened. The SparkFun folks are cool. Back when I was a broke college student, they sent me free electronics kits. I massively respect them for that. I'm surprised AdaFruit did something wrong here. They frequently blog about their stances on issues and seem to try to take the moral high ground on a lot of issues.
I suspect they made this public because many customers will notice that they are no longer carrying Adafruit products. I respect both companies greatly and have purchased from them in the past. It will be interesting to see what happened, if that is made public.
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#13Ok, so what's the drama? Because it's obvious that there was some drama there: "inappropriately involving a SparkFun customer with a private matter," "Responding and forwarding offensive, antagonistic, and derogatory emails and material."
My guess is someone was trying to hit on someone and got mad when they were rejected.
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#14To publish such a vague statement is an obvious invitation for speculation. It seems like rather questionable behaviour itself from spatkfun.
The fact that they mention a "private matter" makes me think this is some petty personal grievance that has somehow escalated to this.
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#15To publish such a vague statement is an obvious invitation for speculation. It seems like rather questionable behaviour itself from spatkfun. The fact that they mention a "private matter" makes me think this is some petty personal grievance that has somehow escalated to this.
What would you have them publish instead? Your curiosity does not overcome the right to privacy of those involved.
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#17The URL for this page is very generic and bound to become a 404 page. Thinking about URLs is important to prevent link rot.
Agreed. Because of this (and regardless), archive everything:
https://web.archive.org/web/20260114140733/https://www.spark...
Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation
#18> Sending and forwarding offensive, antagonistic, and derogatory emails and material to SparkFun employees, former employees and customers > Inappropriately involving a SparkFun customer with a private matter Well those are fun accusations. Looking forward to adafruit response. Anyone has any context? Keep in mind adafruit and sparkfun are business competitors. Not saying either is lying but statements need to be exa…
Adafruit's response seems to be here: https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/open-source-teensy-... (via https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teens... )
> in july, we [Adafruit] told sparkfun they needed to get their house in order. for years, sparkfun's leadership ignored specific behavior from leadership (and employees, now former... they had created and promoted hate sites, photoshopped images, and harassment targeting limor, me, and others at adafruit. this was done on company time, shared, promoted. this was reported to them. it was documented and ignored. that was the big issue i wanted them to get some hr training on, or _something_
> months later in 2025, the same individual resurfaced and re-promoted it with what appears to be nate's blessing at the time. we again told sparkfun to deal with this. instead of addressing the behavior, sparkfun’s response was to “ban” adafruit from purchasing teensy by invoking a vague, secret set of rules that neither we nor paul (the creator of teensy) were allowed to see.
> this is not a one-off. nate (the founder of sparkfun) has done this before. anyone who has worked with him long enough knows this is how conflict is handled: deflect, escalate, and try to punish rather than deal with the underlying conduct.
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#19Ok, so what's the drama? Because it's obvious that there was some drama there: "inappropriately involving a SparkFun customer with a private matter," "Responding and forwarding offensive, antagonistic, and derogatory emails and material." My guess is someone was trying to hit on someone and got mad when they were rejected.
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