The entire community point is covered on the Make magazine article; it's really good; http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-h

The entire community point is covered on the Make magazine article; it's really good; http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/why-the-arduino-won-and-why-its-here-to-stay.html http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2011/02/why-the-arduino-won...