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Finland

EDRIX-Wert

7.30

Stufe

Leader

EDRIX-Säulen-Werte (normalisiert 0–10)

Entwickler-Ökosystem 7.05 / 10
Adoption an der Basis 10.00 / 10
Resilienz des privaten Sektors 4.93 / 10
Resilienz des öffentlichen Sektors 7.22 / 10

Rohmetriken

Die zugrunde liegenden Werte vor der Min-Max-Normalisierung über die EU27.

GitHub-Entwickler (pro-Kopf-Index) 4.39
Linux-Anteil auf Desktop- und Laptop-Computern 9.81%
Anteil souveräner Browser (Firefox + Opera) 18.33%
Domain-Souveränitätsbewertung — alle (nationale TLD) 0.430
Domain-Souveränitätsbewertung — öffentlicher Sektor 0.722

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Finland's signature is grassroots: a perfect 10/10 on the Grassroots Adoption pillar, driven by the EU's highest desktop Linux share (9.81%, nearly 2.5× the EU27 mean) and a strong sovereign browser share of 18.33%. Finland also leads on developer density per capita (4.39 — top tier across the EU). The countering signal is private-sector hosting, where Finland scores only 4.61: the .fi raw rating is 0.44, well below EU27 leaders.

Strengths

  • EU-leading desktop Linux share — 9.81%, nearly 2.5× the EU27 mean of ~4.0%.
  • Top-tier developer density — 4.39 per-capita index, behind only Netherlands, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, and Sweden.
  • Strong sovereign browser adoption — 18.33% Firefox + Opera among human desktop traffic.

Weaknesses

  • Private Sector Health at 4.61 — only about 44% of scanned .fi domains are EU-hosted; the long tail relies heavily on US cloud providers (AWS, Cloudflare).
  • Public Sector Health at 7.22 — strong by absolute standards but below the perfect-10 cluster (Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Luxembourg, Romania, Slovenia).

Outlook

Finland is the EU's open-source culture leader at the end-user level — that's structural and unlikely to reverse. The next moves are corporate: encouraging Finnish enterprises to repatriate hosting from US clouds. Improvement on the private-sector pillar would push Finland into top-2 contention.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Finland was an "emerging" country with a significant disconnect between its strong top-down security strategy and its weak formal policy for open source.

2024 progression

Finland continues to champion open source, with policymaking remaining decentralized. The 2019 government program prioritized openness and OSS use in procurement. Strategic players like the Centre for Open Systems and Solutions (COSS) remain central to the ecosystem's health.

Historischer Verweis

OSOR-Datenblatt (PDF, 2024) — der länderbezogene Open-Source-Politikbericht, der in der zurückgezogenen Säule „Öffentliche Politik“ von EDRIX 1.0 verwendet wurde.