alt Hacker NewsWhat would you have them publish instead? Your curiosity does not overcome the right to privacy of those involved.
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I would rather they published nothing. There is no need to make any of this public. Just stop selling Adafruit products and stop selling to Adafruit. If anyone asks, then you can say "we don't do business with them any longer". The public doesn't need the rationale.
That's it. Everything else is dragging the community/customers into a fight that they didn't ask for.
> What would you have them publish instead?
Is there any duty to publish anything? They could release nothing, or nothing with any details, if they have some obligation.
Nothing, you either want to talk about a problem or not. Throwing vague, empty claims is just a cheap attack on other's company public image
Something more concrete like "on Tuesday at 9pm an adafruit employee sent an aggressive email which violated our COC by calling one of our employees a 'stupid fuckface'".
I don't think that level of detail would be a privacy violation legally and imo not morally either
Nothing. They could just cut ties and be done with it.
If you can't publish a complete, detailed, specific description of what you're alleging, with names, dates, quotes, and whatever, then you publish absolutely nothing. Publishing vague and unanswerable accusations is scumbag behavior.
It seems like releasing more would have probably broken the exact same rules they are claiming AdaFruit broke.
> Your curiosity does not overcome the right to privacy of those involved.
I agree in principle, but is there an actual right to privacy in this instance?
I'm asking this in the legal sense, not a moral sense.
Don’t attention whore on the internet if you want privacy.
> What would you have them publish instead?
The statement that is published places blame, if not accusations of criminal behaviour, on their business partner.
IOW, they already overshared with the intent of damaging the reputation of their business partner.
In my mind, they are already behind; had they released the standard business line "Our relationship with $X has come to an end; we apologise for any inconvenience caused" I wouldn't be so quick to judge them.
But, now I *am judging them, because they clearly felt personally aggrieved by what happened, enough to imply the worst without actually coming out and saying what happened.