Oh boy, just what we need. Drama between open hardware vendors. Neither of these responses feels like the complete story to me. I hope there's a path forward to heal this rift in one way or another. Both SparkFun and Adafruit are doing amazing things for the community and I would love to see both continue to thrive.

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tedivm 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Note that Sparkfun has been less and less of an "open hardware" vendor, as they've dropped the open aspect on some of their most popular projects.

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beambot 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems to be the inevitable trend... Just in recent times: Pebble drama, Arduino joining the dark side, now Sparkfun & Adafruit. End of an era

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ptorrone 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

we are sticking with open source, arduino has moved away from that and sparkfun has an open-source certification revoked due to not being open source.

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qingcharles 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

What's the drama with Pebble? I thought everything was rosy since the reboot?

	▲	itintheory 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There was conflict between the new (old) hardware manufacturer Core Devices, and the Rebble community that's maintained the app store and software for the original Pebbles. I think they've worked it out, but it got ugly for a bit.