Ettus Research USRPs (Universal Software Radio Peripheral) are popular in academia and defense, especially the B200 series. Their software and FPGA designs are open source, and the schematics for most devices are available online.
With the RT, yes it was indeed locked as the market pattern and target at the time (with iPad and Android tablets) have been to lock the system at the benefit of better curation and more integrated experience (well some will point out and argue that this was more of a lock-in, but obviously a Windows without malware was a goal also). The newer ARM attempt however were a complete reversal: Microsoft had dropped the focus on phone and (to an extent) tablet markets and even recent first-party Surface have unlockable boot systems, something that was impossible with Surface RT devices.
I would love something with 4x SATA ports for a NAS like this one[1]. I've seen PCIe on devices like these, but I've heard there are issues getting drivers to work properly. I haven't actually tried it, but other limitations (RAM, CPU, Ethernet) have prevented me from actually giving it a shot (I want ZFS, which is a bit memory hungry). The Pi has just enough that I think it's doable.
I would absolutely love it if the Raspberry Pi foundation made a version with PCIe instead of USB.
It is not just ask for money, They are proposing that Apple use the standard and make public they use the standard, It could boost openid as no other could make.
Yep, Microsoft too. Apple supporting the standard would be a great help to developer adoption.. theoretically, though I think they just prefer strong-arming developers into using their proprietary API anyway, standard irrespective.
Twitter and Facebook are the big two holdouts besides Apple that makes social sign in buttons a PITA. OpenID Connect can already provide MS and Google and also supports Paypal, Yahoo, AOL, etc.
We are using https://www.15five.com/ is a tool that helps on 1to1. We write beforehand what we want to talk about and It is something that helps to have the meeting preworked and no make a unplanned meeting.