Possible connection, FWIW:
Bruce Perens also opposes pro-fs government policies: http://lwn.net/Articles/163077/ "I still think that preference laws are the wrong way to go. [...] I keep thinking that the end still doesn't justify the means."
(He's stated this position more clearly in other comments, but I can't find them now.)
And he worked for a year in Norway (2007?) and does/did policy work in Norway sponsored by the Competence Fund of Western Norway. (http://perens.com/policy/open-source/ "Sponsorship")