Arduino has been a resounding success! And Arduino is not hardware, it is the ecosystem, the community, etc.. Do a web search for "Basic Stamp", the closed-so

Arduino has been a resounding success! And Arduino is not hardware, it is the ecosystem, the community, etc.. Do a web search for "Basic Stamp", the closed-source progenitor of the Arduino. Then search for "Arduino". I get 142,000,000 results.