I'm Icelandic, and although I love my country... I am wary of the spin put on some of these things. A lot of the events that followed the crash were pure luck or even incompetence - I suspect the government would have liked to prop up the banks, but just failed to do so. :-)

But these moves towards Free Software are on the other hand genuine, as are a lot of the grass-roots efforts (I know many of the people involved personally and have helped out with a couple of related projects).

These changes are also very fragile still, it's early days and one wonders what would happen if Microsoft decided this was P.R. problem and decided to throw money at trying to make "the problem" go away.

As I understand it they wanted to save the banks but then the gov changed and the new guys didn't want to.