Finland
Score EDRIX
7.13
Niveau
Leader
Scores des piliers EDRIX (normalisés 0–10)
Métriques brutes
Les valeurs sous-jacentes avant normalisation min-max sur l'UE27.
| Développeurs GitHub (indice par habitant) | 4.39 |
| Part de Linux sur les ordinateurs de bureau et portables | 9.81% |
| Part des navigateurs souverains (Firefox + Opera) | 18.33% |
| Note de souveraineté des domaines — tous (TLD national) | 0.449 |
| Note de souveraineté des domaines — secteur public | 0.611 |
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
.fidomains 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.
Référence historique
Fiche OSOR (PDF, 2024) — le rapport de politique Open Source par pays, utilisé dans le pilier Politiques publiques retiré d'EDRIX 1.0.