1. I tell my boss I need this and only use it on non-business-core code. 2. He understands that open-source != raise. 3. He agrees. (the funny thing is, that

1. I tell my boss I need this and only use it on non-business-core code. 2. He understands that open-source != raise. 3. He agrees. (the funny thing is, that the open-source code a programmer can benefit the most on is rarely that what a business considers its core value, e.g. I write an open-source package manager for our plugins that I can reuse to bring plugins to later jobs, boss considers the plugin's contents his core value)