Microsoft issued and spread another wave of propaganda yesterday, calling for more companies to sign patent deals like Novell's

Microsoft and de Icaza are still trying to make Android rely on .NET and it's not surprising given that Microsoft is unable to produce decent phones (or phone platform) of its own

Microsoft's arrogance is spinning out of control as it insults its own customers.

"Solution Linux" has Microsoft "injecting Microsoft content"; OSBC features a software patents proponent from the corrupt Gartner Group; Microsoft's patent troll seems prepared to sue/extort the mobile phones industry

TiVo is preemptively sued by Microsoft for alleged patent violation and Microsoft's PR puts together some lies to disguise the real cause

The Microsoft boosters spread GNU/Linux FUD even upon the release of Firefox 3.6 while Novell and Microsoft groom another journalist for coverage of their joint products and glorification of their patent deal

The controversy continues to heat up around Microsoft's misleading anti-Linux training materials designed for Best Buy salespeople. Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation's Jim Zemlin has alleged that Microsoft tried to spread anti-Linux FUD by dumping 22 Linux-related patents in the hopes they'd be purchased by "patent trolls."

Microsoft and Brother Industries have entered into a broad patent cross-licensing agreement that enables access to each company's respective patent portfolio, including Brother's embedded Linux printing products. Aimed at boosting R&D efforts, the agreement includes compensation paid to Microsoft by Brother, say the companies.

Does the Microsoft-HTC patent agreement mean we can expect to see Microsoft weigh in on the Apple vs. HTC patent infringement matter? Or is the Microsoft-HTC deal just one more example (with more mobile-phone makers possibly to come) of Linux companies attempting to head off potential Microsoft lawsuits involving Linux?