markyb86 said:

That actually wouldn't cost much at all then. Apple wouldn't have to pay for the storage, only the bandwidth which would be nothing at most.

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Yes they do have to pay for the storage. They would be using storage for files that almost nobody uses anymore whereas they could otherwise use that storage for something that a lot of people are actually using.-

Paralel said:

I also discovered why the 7.1 Update for System 7.0.x was never put up for download, apparently it was the very first SSW update that Apple charged for, and they'd never put up a product for free that they charged for, so that explains why 7.1 has always been missing.

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They made MPW freely available on the basis that it was obsolete software, so I see no reason why they couldn't do the same thing with the System 7.1 update or any other obsolete software for that matter.