I can run DOSBox in the cloud. What I can't do is run an old version of Google Docs, Salesforce, Notion, or Alexa.
I can run old commercial software that I paid for in DOSBox or a VM because I have the software, even if it's just in binary form. I have the software and the environment and I can run it myself.
That's the difference. The cloud is far more closed than closed-source commercial software.
I can also run the software with privacy. When I run something locally there's nobody with back-end access that can monitor every single thing I do, steal my data, scan my data to feed into ad profile generators or sell to data brokers, etc.
i think yu are mixing saas whit cloud you ca run fireckraker functions, and old verion of rocky linux, but is 100 times more complex than pay for the sistems and the cloud provider encourges this propietry tools because of this omthing similar will be dinamo or firbase which are pay as you go saas
I can run old commercial software that I paid for in DOSBox or a VM because I have the software, even if it's just in binary form. I have the software and the environment and I can run it myself.
That's the difference. The cloud is far more closed than closed-source commercial software.
I can also run the software with privacy. When I run something locally there's nobody with back-end access that can monitor every single thing I do, steal my data, scan my data to feed into ad profile generators or sell to data brokers, etc.