Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen is standing his ground against Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who recently published an open letter, or rant, bashing Adobe's flash and blaming it for everything from the Kennedy assassination to the housing market crash.

Narayen said that Adobe believes in open content and that Apple feels threatened by Adobe's tech and cross-platform computing. He noted that Adobe has remained true to consumers who want to run their software on multiple platforms. Narayen pointed out that more than 100 apps offered in Apple's App Store were based on Adobe technology and that Jobs' rant was a mere smokescreen to cover up licensing practices that have nothing to do with technology.

Narayen dismissed Jobs' claims that Adobe software was the main reason of Mac crashes, saying it was all down to the operating system. Frankly this is the most ridiculous claim of all. Computers crash, it's what they do, but we haven't heard complaints from PC users that Adobe's evil code is making their Microsoft systems die.

Commenting Jobs' claims that Adobe Flash drained the poor, helpless MacBook batteries, Narayen said that such claims were patently false.

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