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If they collect any data besides the stuff thats already pleasant in your files (day of creation, user who created it, etc), that is data collection and if you didnt activate it, its opt out. I didnt check daylio, I‘m talking about it in general.
And yes, of course for profit companies will make more polished products. This doesnt even hinge on foss. Nextcloud is pretty polished and foss for example. That said, medical stuff is very niche and less common in foss (although present).
Is it though? I personally feel like it's much more down to the attitudes of people that create and contribute to foss applications. I do understand that for profit companies have more resources, but I genuinely think that foss folks don't do enough to support accessibility, and don't often focus on medical stuff. There are exceptions to that though, drip is an awesome app for example.
Thanks for mentioning this.
Of course it would be a lot better if there were more foss health apps.
But as an open source dev, donor and contributor, it is absolutely impossible to make decent software on a nearly global scale with what usually amounts to one person in their free time without a single cent of income.
I know there are theoretical workarounds like donations but even I (who uses mostly open source) cant donate to every app/library I use. You need to make few big donations instead of many small ones. Otherwise you donate to the banking system and thats it. For example I partly finance this platform we are talking on in larger chunks instead of weekly/monthly as not to pay too much fees.
The issue is systemic. We desperately need something like open source tax which is to be paid by those who profit the most off it (large companies) and especially who dont pay any other taxes (mostly).
And yes, compared to a chat app, a health app is niche. But you are right, that should be no problem.
Please write to your political representative and speak out about us needing significantly more funding for open source. Many issues have been solved that way.
Full time open source work must pay the rent and food, period. Sorry for the rant.