These include Sailfish OS, postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, Mobian, etc. They never gained a significant market share/adoption.

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    Isn’t that mostly just reverse engineering though? The tools for doing that are available, hence why open source support for phones exist at all, the technology is just a lot more complex.

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      Yes, but there were ways to discourage tinkering like using uncommon or proprietary fasteners. They were rarely employed. The digital equivalents are common.