Is it permissible for an employee to benefit from programs and ideas that he developed through his own effort and expertise during his previous employment in a government institution, in order to create and sell his own private programs, given that he does not copy the original programs but rather utilizes some of their parts and ideas?
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There is no objection to benefiting from the effort and ideas used in previous work to develop specialized programs, as this falls under the category of utilizing accumulated experiences.
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