CAD / GIS tsakanin abubuwan da suka dace na Software
Foundation don Free Software (FSF) an kirkireshi a shekara ta 1985 da nufin inganta amfani, ci gaba da kuma kariya ga software a ƙarƙashin lasisi mara mallakar mallakar tsarin kasuwanci. Ta hanyar Gigabriones Na koyi cewa FSF ta sanar da ayyukan fifiko goma sha ɗaya, gami da biyu a cikin al'amuran yanayin ƙasa:
Sauyawa ga Google Earth
Akwai ƙoƙari iri-iri na balloons masu mahimmanci a cikin tsari na ainihi, kamar su Titan daga Leica, ArcGIS Explorer na ESRI, mai rumfa Duniya daga Microsoft, Duniya Wind daga NASA da kuma GeoShow.
Amma tabbas, Google Earth shine mafi mashahuri, saboda yawan albarkatun da basu da yawa idan aka kwatanta da sauran kuma saboda shi ma Google ne yake da alhakin yin amo. Wannan yadawar ya kara yawan bayanan da ke ciki don haka mutane suka fi so; don haka FSF suna neman mayewa a ƙarƙashin amfani kyauta.
An fahimci cewa baza ka iya samun dama ga bayanai na Google ba amma kana iya karanta fayilolin fayiloli, samun dama ga sauran bayanan bayanan OGC ciki harda tushe na Bude Street Maps (OSM) da kuma wanda ke cikin haɗin gwiwar marmara.
Sauyawa ga ɗakin karatu na OpenDWG
A cikin wannan muna neman aikin da aka tsara don tallafawa amfani, rarrabawa da daidaitawa ƙarƙashin lasisi na kyauta don tsarin CAD. Ba zai zama da kyau ba idan muka tuna cewa Open Alliance Alliance ban da manufofi kamar IntelliCAD wannan ya haifar da wannan ra'ayin, kadan ya sami nasarar aiwatarwa bayan dwg na shekara ta 2000 tare da mahaukaciyar hanyar canza sigogin ta AutoDesk da V7 na Bentley wanda bai iya faruwa ba kodayake bayani dalla-dalla na V8 akwai.
Saboda haka, shirye-shiryen da yawa suna ci gaba da budewa tsoffin tsofaffi tare da uzuri cewa babu goyon baya wanda aka ƙaddara ko da yake Bentley da AutoDesk suna da shi shirya don na gaba shekara.
Sauran ayyukan da suka fada a karkashin fifiko na SFS sune:
Gnash, mai kunnawa don fayilolin flash
Coreboot, wani bayani don BIOS kyauta
Software don maye gurbin Skype
Software kyauta don shirya bidiyo
GNU Octave, maye gurbin Matlab
Mai kula da hanyoyin sadarwa na cibiyar sadarwa