The thing that I hate the most about my job:

Manager: We need to get this done.

Me: okay. (after some scouring online) this open source library looks like a perfect fit for the requirement.

Manager: oh sweet.

*some eons later*
Me: dude, I developed this general purpose utility and I think this might be helpful to other developers and something that we could open source.

Manager: uh no. Company policy.

Me: but we make use of open source libraries all the time.

Manager: that's different.

@Letmecode I agree is like almost like stealing, like using Jesus name to earn money when he never took money or something like that

@Letmecode alot companies have this policy, next to "open source, no need to care the license!"

Company policy = never done that, it's scary and we don't have time for anything besides behind schedule projects

I've booked the time off as "educational/consultancy work with industry partners", using that time to write code together with some friends and coworkers, hosting it on github, writing some articles, streaming it as a tutorial on YouTube — and then I told the product owner that this "Innovation taskforce" was able to design a great solution together for a common problem in the industry.

Sometimes you just have to adjust the wording a little.

In my country companies even get subsidy from an innovation fund for every hour spent on open source projects.

You just have to keep shouting "subsidized", "delegated testing" and "free professional security audits" to management... And leave the words "open source" in the fine print.