Purism Differentiator Series, Part 3: Operating System
Building an Operating System that avoids Big Tech allowed us to build out a new convergent operating system that could work across all our products that does not spy on the user where we release all the source code so it is peer-reviewable. This was a massive multi-year multi-million dollar undertaking to create PureOS as an alternative to Google’s Android, Apple’s iOS, and Microsoft Windows. There is no data mining in PureOS, and you are in complete control.
PureOS is a Free Software Foundation endorsed distribution and that means, according to John Sullivan, FSF’s executive director at the time: “The FSF’s high standards for distributions help users know which ones will honor their desire to be fully in control of their computers and devices. These standards also help drive the development work needed to make the free world’s tools more practical and powerful than the proprietary dystopia exemplified by Windows, iOS, and Chrome. PureOS is living — and growing — proof that you can meet ethical standards while also achieving excellence in user experience.”