Annihilia

5P next year? Pretty please?

My girlfriend is a materials researcher who is against patents / IP. We've come to the conclusion that trade secrets + first mover advantage are great ways to make bank while people are busy figuring out how to reverse engineer your product.

EDIT: The open source movement basically invalidates the argument regarding the absence of patents leading to the lack of motivation to develop new things. Also, if nobody is developing anything, the first person to develop something new will likely make a ton of money.

Obviously the plastic tube is not going to grow with your body. Did they just provide you with a bunch of extra slack to account for your growth? Do you go in for routine followups to see if the shunt is intact / not kinked up?