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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 electroni

• seidleroni 10mo ago
  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.
  • geerlingguy 10mo ago
    Yeah, what a weird turn of events. I have a tub of random little boards and kits from Adafruit... and the same from Sparkfun. Next we'll see Waveshare and Seeed Studios have a go? Strange happenings.
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• cogman10 10mo ago
  > 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?
  • beeforpork 10mo ago
    Hmm, but the accusations are so vague that it's going to be even more speculation, don't you think?
    • cogman10 10mo ago
      Yes, and that speculation is going to be entirely around "what did adafruit do" and not "what did sparkfun do".
    • bluGill 10mo ago
      There is no such thing as bad publicity...
• LightHugger 10mo ago
  > 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.
  • hiddencost 10mo ago
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• jacquesm 10mo ago
  > I'm surprised AdaFruit did something wrong here. You don't actually know that for a fact.