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SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by micromacrofoot »

827a wrote: post #51
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…

If it means anything, the first thought I had reading this post was "I wonder how SparkFun is exaggerating or misrepresenting this situation, because I can't believe Adafruit of all organizations is in the wrong here."

Yeah just to add to this pile, I've always found Adafruit to be one of the most reasonable companies in the space. I've been buying their products for a decade.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by layer8 »

YackerLose wrote: post #99
Y_Y wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you also been embargoed from buying shift keys?

Typing in all lowercase makes you look more vulnerable, it's a pretty common rhetorical tactic in PR.

Uh, no, it makes you look careless and unprofessional.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by micromacrofoot »

MaKey wrote: post #83
swed420 wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't be the first time CoC was used as a lame attempt to harm open source. Thanks for speaking up.

Overall I think Code of Conducts are a net negative. Alleged violations of them seem to be used to lend credibility to actions that otherwise would be hard(er) to justify.

This is like saying "overall laws are bad" because whoever is applying them is doing so maliciously. Even in the absence of COC companies like this always find a way to justify this sort of pressure. If not a COC, it's a TOS or NDA or whatever document acronym you can find.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by mosura »

timmmmmmay wrote: post #64
reactordev wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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if they didn't want people to speculate on the details, they could have released a more professional message instead of what they have here. seriously the level of unprofessionalism at this scale of the market is shocking. you can't imagine e.g. Nvidia putting out a press release like this when they drop a vendor

> you can't imagine e.g. Nvidia putting out a press release like this when they drop a vendor

nVidia used to have a much worse reputation than that.

Companies did not work with nVidia because they liked doing so.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by layer8 »

ptorrone wrote: post #71
Y_Y wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you also been embargoed from buying shift keys?

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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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by [deleted] »

csande17 wrote: post #18
progbits wrote: post #6

> 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,…

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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by Perz1val »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #15
RobotToaster wrote: post #14

To 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.

Nothing, you either want to talk about a problem or not. Throwing vague, empty claims is just a cheap attack on other's company public image

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by cjbgkagh »

ptorrone wrote: post #71
Y_Y wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you also been embargoed from buying shift keys?

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

Perhaps a foot pedal? Maybe Adafruit could make one.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by komali2 »

deng wrote: post #118
Y_Y wrote: post #86

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Weird that your STT doesn't handle capitals, but that's a good excuse. Sounds like you're having a challenging day, I hope my snarky joke wasn't too annoying.

> I hope my snarky joke wasn't too annoying Don't worry, he always writes like this.

I think it's a trend among tech founders, I've seen some on Twitter doing it, and then a bunch of hanger-ons copying the behavior.
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