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Known for being a data and tech pioneer in the financial services industry, Capital One has embraced the open source movement with the creation of its Open Source Program Office (OSPO), a sort of laboratory that invests in the community. “We didn’t want to use open source as just a tool, we wanted to be open source first,” says John Mark Walker, director of the OSPO and a long-time open source community, product, and strategy expert.