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Another straight-forward but non-obvious reason, depending on your industry:

Because the computer we would run it on is not connected to the internet.

From google docs to numerous npm-things, there's myriad software I was unable to run at a digital forensics shop.

And of course the opposite is true: we were always thankful for software who's authors had taken the time to make work offline.



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