Not long ago the makers of SlickEdit, my favorite programmer’s editor, released the new version, SlickEdit 2008. Since I have an active maintenance and support contract, I got the upgrade free (although it took a few days of support hell to figure out how to get my updated 2008 key).

As a long-time SlickEdit user (I first used Visual SlickEdit 2.x back in the late 90’s) I am used to the painless upgrade process, but this time was different. This time, when I launched Slickedit for the first time, it wanted to activate! As in, Microsoft WGA Fascism Lives DRM Bullshit! From Slickedit of all people!

I just tried to install Slickedit 2007, my programmer’s editor of choice, on my 64-bit install of Ubuntu 7.10. When I ran the vsinst executable from the CD, I got:

sudo: unable to execute ./vsinst: No such file or directory