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		itomato 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC V... without Sparkfun, whose catalog could they have scraped? Without Sparkfun developing the business model for them to copy, where would they be?

iancmceachern 34 days ago [–]

You mean the radio shack business model?

The Heathkit business model?

The Eico business model?

Jameco? Digikey?

itomato 33 days ago | [–]

you wouldn't know of them if they had emulated any of those.

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