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"What is clear is that Apple has timed this purposely to hurt sales of CS5"

As many other commenters pointed out here, theflashblog.com is not an official Adobe blog.This is definitely not "Adobe's reaction" as the title suggests.

I get the impression he's paid to write things Adobe would like to say, but can't

It's not an "official Adobe blog", but what he writes depends upon what Adobe chooses to redact or not. That sounds like a very passive aggressive way for Adobe to tell Apple to screw themselves.

I find it slightly amusing that these two statements are in adjoining paragraphs:

The trouble is that we will never hear their discontent because Apple employees are forbidden from blogging, posting to social networks, or other things that we at companies with an open culture take for granted

[Sentence regarding Apple's intentions redacted at request from Adobe].