Just about every technology company under the sun wants to align themselves with the open source sphere, whether it’s Facebook open-sourcing its own internal projects or Microsoft doling out north of $7 billion to acquire one of the biggest platforms for open source developers — GitHub.
Spotify is no different. The music-streaming giant has open-sourced a number of its projects through the years, such as Backstage, which was recently accepted as an incubating project at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) after two years as an open source project. The company also recently joined the Open Source Security Foundation, opened a dedicated open source program office, and is now launching a fund to support independent open source projects.