About Purism

Purism is a Social Purpose Corporation founded in 2014.

Purism’s mission enshrined in its articles of incorporation are summarized as:

• Purism will prioritize privacy, security, and freedom for its customers.
• Purism will only use and distribute free/libre and open source software in the kernel, OS, and software in its products.
• Purism will design and manufacture hardware that respects users’ rights to privacy, security, and freedom.
• Purism will not discriminate against individuals, groups or fields of endeavor.
• Purism will source, and manufacture the highest quality hardware.
• Purism will release all software written by Purism under a free software license.
• Purism will release all hardware schematics authored by The Corporation under a free hardware license.
• Purism will release encryption tools and services and will design these tools such that Purism will have no means to access users’ encrypted data.

History of Major Accomplishments