If I had to guess. One seeks to reverse engineer hardware to run an open source OS. The seeks to emulate a platform to run a proprietary closed source OS. If I

If I had to guess. One seeks to reverse engineer hardware to run an open source OS. The seeks to emulate a platform to run a proprietary closed source OS. If I remember correctly, Apple at the introduction of M1 made some explicit statements about the hardware not being locked down. Something along the lines of nothing preventing Linux to run on it.