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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Dangeranger 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This post [0] suggests that leadership at SparkFun has been engaged in a long term harassment campaign targeting the founder of AdaFruit (Limor Fried) using company resources, and is allegedly using their CoC as a smokescreen to cover up their own bad behavior and cast blame on the victim.

[0] https://forum.pjrc.com/index.php?threads/open-source-teensy-...

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drastic9 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah but this post is not necessarily the truth. This person has ahem interesting history. https://chaos.social/@North/115605819126197877

	▲	hitekker 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Can you explain that link a bit more? People are implying it shows crazy unhinged behavior but my quick read is just someone posting their annoyances.
	▲	garbagewoman an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Give a summary of your thoughts on the linked page

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reactordev 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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timmmmmmay 14 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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

	▲	mosura 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> 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.

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buellerbueller 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	behringer 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also it implies that the other side has already made public accusations that sparkfun wants to set straight. What's that info, if any?

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PunchyHamster 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

given that they didn't even present actual violation in the blog it is very suspicious

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gedy 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm not involved with this specific case, but in general it's annoying when people blast some vague passive aggressive accusation publicly, but then retreat behind "it's a private matter! Respect our privacy!" when people are then naturally are interested in what happened. It's frequently cover for a weak argument.