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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 beeforpork »

cogman10 wrote: post #9
echelon wrote: post #3

Why 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.

> Why publish this publicly? I'm guessing to get ahead of any sort of speculation on why Sparkfun stops carrying their products? Perhaps also to get ahead of Adafruit publishing a similar public statement with more/conflicting details?

Hmm, but the accusations are so vague that it's going to be even more speculation, don't you think?

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by BirAdam »

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…

Glad to hear that there will by an open source option. This honestly makes the Teensy/Freensy an option for me where before it wasn't.

Is there any thought to expanding the Freensy lineup beyond a pure clone?

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by cloudfudge »

smeeagain2 wrote: post #24
NetMageSCW wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would you have them publish instead? Your curiosity does not overcome the right to privacy of those involved.

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smeeagain2 says:

> Maybe the AdaFruit founder said something unacceptable like "it's OK to be white" or "a man can't become an actual woman just by pretending that he is." That might explain the conflict.

Why would you just invent identity politics issues to be mad about?

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by _blk »

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…

Looks like you guys are handling it right from a consumer standpoint. Thanks for letting us know and for not playing the fingerpointing game in public. Looks like you're not playing at all and just moving on. Nice.

Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by hiddencost »

LightHugger wrote: post #33
echelon wrote: post #3

Why 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'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. This aspect is not very surprising, it is usually moral high grounders who end up found to be doing something wrong, people like to compensate and try to put down others when they know they are in the wrong.

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Re: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation

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Post by buellerbueller »

reactordev wrote: post #19
palmotea wrote: post #13

Ok, 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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Sparkfun is publicizing the enforcement of their code of conduct, making it a public issue, which is a bizarre position to take. Usually, when there are violations of things like this, you don't discuss it outside a need-to-know basis.

They are inviting us to ask for the tea.

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