Why? Putting Android on the iPhone I get, but I don't see too many hackers out there wanting to flip off Apple by installing Windows, of all things.
To put it another way, how many macbook pros are running Win7 solo, aka w/o bootcamp or VMware?
Why? For the sole purpose of getting Win8 running on an iPad.
Fair enough.
Flip off apple? Really? Apple sell them a device, they own it and do what they like with it. I don't think achieving something non-trivial like getting windows 8 running on an ipad is flipping off apple.
I think it's more thumbing their noses at Apple's propensity to lock down their devices. There's no challenge putting windows on an unlocked device, but putting apple's traditional competitor's os on a product that apple's best and brightest had supposedly locked down must carry some kind of thrill.
When the Intel Macs were initial released there was a contest to install Windows XP on it natively (before bootcamp was even announced.) Enough people donated to the prize pool that the winner walked away with 14,000 dollars.