SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

Post by spankalee » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:21 PM UTC

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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.

Post by pamcake » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

MaKey wrote: post #83

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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.

Post by hamburglar » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

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> the termination letter was addressed broadly to “adafruit leadership,” not to any specific operational contact. that alone tells you this was not a routine business dispute That really doesn’t tell me anything. I would like to humbly suggest you’re very close to this issue, in an already stressful personal situation, and you’re reading things between the lines kind of aggressively and overreacting. I’m not saying y…

it seems like if i do not reply, it's worse? i totally get what you are saying, however i think we're part of this hackernews community too, and not here to litigate past issues, and i will probably always get a little too worked up when it comes to what i believe is a long history of a "competitor" doing things outside of "it's just business, get thicker skin" ...

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

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valuing style over substance is folly.

It is clearly a deliberate choice to send the signal of conforming to a particular type of non-conformance. It’s a costly signal because most people will see it as having the emotional maturity of a child, it signals to others that given their social status they can afford that self imposed handicap.

Post by nanomonkey » Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

Y_Y wrote: post #27

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…

Have you also been embargoed from buying shift keys?