Post by @openrisk@mastodon.social

2026-10-10 10:30 UTC

@mindaugas@mastodon.0011.lt My guess is the more extensive a country's IT industry the more likely it is to have a niche that doesn't like how the mainstream has developed and "thinks differently"🖖. E.g., the US is (still) absolutely dwarfing all others in the open source movement (having even invented the concept). But it might indeed be fun to see how such a "ranking" looks versus GDP/capita 😅. The special thing about openness: low friction, hopefully it will diffuse everywhere🌱 @NRC@nrc.social @MarloesdeKoning@nrc.social

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@mindaugas@mastodon.0011.lt 2026-10-10 11:44

@openrisk@mastodon.social Partially yes. I searched and attached stat for "Percentage of the ICT sector in Gross value added 2023" from eurostat. Which does not reveal much, especially with Ireland exception 😀 But country size correlate with size of IT industry, and IT size roughly may correlate to the size of open source. Thus roughly bigger countries in population produce more open source 😀 And some edge are determined, I think, mostly by specifics of tradition/momentum in each country. For no.~1 mostly I meant fediverse, where Netherlands seems to have an edge. But fedidb.com stats don't agree I see: 12.6% accounts Germany, 1% Netherlands. Or Finland tops the list with 2.9%, which looks impressive considering population size. There are also digital sovereignty indexes: - Edrix index Germany and Finland is first again, Netherlands is 14. - or NextCloud DSI index Finland and Germany is first again, and Netherlands 3rd. @NRC@nrc.social @MarloesdeKoning@nrc.social

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