We had a great FOSS4G conference in Sydney that's about to go out with a last blast of energy during the code sprint. During the week I haven't been able to closely follow what was blogged, twittered or written in the press but my gut feeling was that press coverage was minimal. Al I did run into were press releases from companies, some of them not even close to supporting open source software but still affiliating themselves to the conference. What I did find were small blurbs that collected some twitter noise and quotes that all relate to the proprietary world. My observation is that this is shameless behavior of the press, but maybe I could better describe it in terms of arrogance and ignorance. Should we open source folks start treating the press by inviting you with perks like free entry tickets, hotels and air fares covered before you'll come and see first hand what great and innovative stuff comes out of open source? Let me tell you: WE WILL NOT, NEVER! Stick to your comfortably facilitated proprietary conferences and cover those with full power, ignore what's happening on the open source side of the geospatial spectrum. Beware: YOU MISS MORE THAN YOU THINK, YOU WILL REGRET!!