They're not "going out of their way to prevent third parties from supporting it" any more than everybody else who doesn't ship an operating system with a PPC compiler. That includes Windows, most Linux distros, your grandma, the corner grocer, President Obama…
Apple isn't actually stopping you from compiling for PPC. They just aren't shipping the compiler themselves. AFAIK, they don't ship any compilers for hardware they don't support — no VAX, no MIPS, no M68k — PPC is not special in that respect. I don't see what's so terrible about that.
Apple isn't actually stopping you from compiling for PPC. They just aren't shipping the compiler themselves. AFAIK, they don't ship any compilers for hardware they don't support — no VAX, no MIPS, no M68k — PPC is not special in that respect. I don't see what's so terrible about that.