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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 mbreese »

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.

I would rather they published nothing. There is no need to make any of this public. Just stop selling Adafruit products and stop selling to Adafruit. If anyone asks, then you can say "we don't do business with them any longer". The public doesn't need the rationale.

That's it. Everything else is dragging the community/customers into a fight that they didn't ask for.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by adolph »

burnte wrote: post #125
dec0dedab0de wrote: post #53

Wait, does this mean that all adafruit items for sale on sparkfun.com are going to be on a clearance sale?

"Existing inventory will be sold through while supplies last. Once inventory is exhausted, no additional units will be restocked. We have put the remaining stock on sale." https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/01/12/discontinuing-the-teens...

> We have put the remaining stock on sale.

Looks like the prices of Teensy boards on adafruit.com are the same as before. Maybe the statement means they will continue to sell them instead of "on sale" in the sense of applying a discount.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by echoangle »

robotfelix wrote: post #116
b112 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did check on archive.org, and the code of conduct is there on March 2025. So they didn't just add it in the last month or so, and then send this notice.

From the Code of Conduct: > Unacceptable behaviors include but are not limited to: offensive comments, insults, jokes or ridicule; gratuitous or off-topic sexual images or behavior in spaces where they are nor other unappropriately aggressive behaviors; threats of violence or deliberate intimidation; creating additional online accounts in order to harass another person or circumvent a ban; harassment of any form. I c…

The list is supposed to be read as "offensive jokes", not any joke at all.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by hamburglar »

As an uninformed observer, here is a possible sequence of events that sounds somewhat plausible based on what we know so far:

  * sparkfun employee engages in some shitty behavior (maybe harassment, maybe photoshops) toward adafruit CEO 
  * adafruit engages sparkfun to ask them to put a stop to it
  * employee leaves sparkfun
  * employee continues shitty behavior
  * adafruit continues to bug sparkfun about behavior 
  * sparkfun now has no control over employee, wants to wash their hands of it
  * adafruit isn’t happy with this resolution, continues to push it, interprets inaction as tacit approval
  * sparkfun cites CoC about private matters, inappropriate messages
  * HN speculates :)

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

reincarnate0x14 wrote: post #52
Y_Y wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you also been embargoed from buying shift keys?

I laughed way too hard at this. Also, I can't even read some of these statements with a straight face because all the project and company names sound completely ridiculous when placed in serious sentences, it's like reading about embezzlement charges for Sesame Street characters.

Levar Burton did get into some hot water over the Reading Rainbow app.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by justsid »

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."

That was my first thought as well, especially given the accusation of code of conduct violation. Not that I think that Adafruit is perfect no matter what, but I would have been shocked if this turned out to be true as stated.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by [deleted] »

notaustinpowers wrote: post #150
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 whole thing just seems like two terrible people being terrible to each other and both vying for sympathy to be the less terrible person in this.

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