Sourceforge says 2007-08-09 for mingw-w64.
The trademark claim is bogus :)

jb

On Mon, 10 May 2021, at 09:28, Roland Schwingel wrote:
> Hi....
> 
> We (Kai Tietz and me on behalf of OneVision) started the "gcc on win64" 
> project in 2007. 
> 
> Opensourced it as mingw-w64 in 2008 (as far as I can remember), So 
> mingw-w64 is prior art before registering mingw. But also, I am no lawyer.
> 
> Keep up the good work and don't be confused by trolls,
> 
> ppa. Roland Schwingel
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> From:   "Joachim Wuttke" <[email protected]>
> To:     <[email protected]>
> Date:   08.05.2021 13:30
> Subject:        [Mingw-w64-public] MINGW trademark claims
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> 
> Keith Marshall argues at https://stackoverflow.com/a/62865466/1017348
> that you are doing illegal things, and that perhaps I am rendering
> myself culpable by recommending use of your software.
> 
> What is your position on this?
> 
> Kind regards and thanks for mingw-w64, Joachim
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