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Poland

EDRIX Score

6.21

Tier

Specialized Contender

EDRIX Pillar Scores (normalized 0–10)

Developer Ecosystem 2.37 / 10
Grassroots Adoption 7.37 / 10
Private sector resilience 8.44 / 10
Public sector resilience 6.67 / 10

Raw metrics

The underlying values before min-max normalization across the EU27.

GitHub developers (per-capita index) 2.52
Linux share on desktops and laptops 3.99%
Sovereign browser share (Firefox + Opera) 25.32%
Domain sovereignty rating — all (national TLD) 0.558
Domain sovereignty rating — public sector 0.667

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Narrative updated for the September 2026 edition.

Poland moves up to seventh at 6.21 (June: 6.13, 8th), on a private-sector pillar up 0.51 to 8.44. It keeps the EU's highest sovereign browser share, 25.32% (Firefox + Opera), ahead of Germany (24.36%). Public-sector hosting is middling (6.67, 11th): www.premier.gov.pl is fully domestic, but Warsaw's website is served by Amazon and the presidency's by Cloudflare, which also runs its DNS. Developer density (2.52, 21st) is the weak pillar.

Strengths

  • Highest sovereign browser share in the EU (25.32%).
  • Private-sector hosting (8.44, 7th). 54% of 491 measured .pl domains are EU-hosted, led by OVH, Wirtualna Polska and Cyber_Folks.

Weaknesses

  • Developer density (2.52, 21st).
  • Two official sites on US infrastructure. um.warszawa.pl (Amazon) rates 0.67; www.prezydent.pl (Cloudflare for web and DNS) rates 0.33.
  • Desktop Linux at 3.99% (19th).

Outlook

Poland's grassroots strength is unusual and stable. The presidency and Warsaw websites are the two visible levers for the public pillar; each would add more than a point to it.

Historical context

2020 baseline

In 2020, Poland was an "emerging" nation with a significant split between its geopolitical posture and its domestic software policies. It had a strong strategic agenda but an underdeveloped formal open source policy framework.

2024 progression

Poland still lacks a dedicated governmental body for promoting OSS. However, the 2021 Law on open data allows agencies to open-source publicly funded software. Initiatives are emerging in specific sectors, like the e-Health Centre's preference for open-source solutions.

Historical reference

OSOR Fact Sheet (PDF, 2024) — the country-level Open Source policy report used by the retired Public Policy pillar in EDRIX 1.0.