Yes, of course. The reason is they are lying about their commitment to open source. They are currently trying to port Python to .NET, and when done they'll retire the current implementation and lock everyone to a proprietary platform. I know it's hard to believe, but there are clues...
there are other reasons behind the decision to not support the MinGW open-source-complier directly out of the main source-code base.
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