The only thing they have ever done well is host a Q&A board and incubate niche communities.

Then they stopped doing that well.

obviously there are people who downloaded it multiple times

Its been around and on enough different platforms that most people who use it would have lost count of how many times they have downloaded it.

I currently have it installed on 4 android devices (my phone, my tablet, my sons tablet, google TV dongle), 3 windows devices (personal PC, loungeroom PC, work PC), and 1 Xbox. That's 8 installs in current use but if you factor in a history of device replacement and software updates I would easily account for hundreds of downloads.

My workplace calls it "n-jinx", we know its nonstandard but its still what is understood by the team.

So is this the tool to use before the 26th?

https://www.theverge.com/news/612898/amazon-removing-kindle-book-download-transfer-usb

I understand proprietary licenses and the business models they support, I also understand open source licenses and the business models they support.

If they they published paid binaries and free source code I would support them (morally), or if they published free binaries and free source code and ran a patreon I would support them (morally).

But to fork GPL code and hold the derived source ransom? Not cool.