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Very expensive, you have to check every single file, every single release, revision and part, you have to censor IP, you have to run everything by lawyers and P

Very expensive, you have to check every single file, every single release, revision and part, you have to censor IP, you have to run everything by lawyers and PR departments etc. That is the way of the commercial enterprise. You could suggest they not do that, but that is likely to bite them in the ass down the road. No company is sharing their internal versions with the outside world. Making the versions for design, manufacture and internal testing alone is basically a multi-million department's work. I suppose one of the things a lot of people don't take in to account that what you see as a consumer is just the tip of a very large iceberg behind it. This is the unfortunate way most of the countries that rely heavily on secrets/IP/law to function work. It's mostly a side-effect, because the protection also allows for a good position when dealing with other enterprises. Downside is that consumers suddenly are very much out of their league.

JohnFen 8y ago
> Very expensive, you have to check every single file, every single release, revision and part, you have to censor IP, you have to run everything by lawyers and PR departments etc. That is the way of the commercial enterprise. Every company I've worked for (and my own companies) has managed to do that exact thing in an economical way. The bulk of the work is in the initial creation of the document. From there on, only the changes have to be vetted.
- oneplane 8y ago
  I suppose it depends on the scope, size and IP involved. I do remember it being much faster and easier a while back when I was working with a smaller organisation. It's hard to switch back and forth between larger and smaller contexts, I guess the real point is that it's not always easy to see how hard/easy it is from the context where the problem is. Even een combination of occam's razor and hanlon's razor doesn't always give a direction on which to think or research. Are you mostly referring to companies in a specific country, or multinationals?
  - JohnFen 8y ago
    > Are you mostly referring to companies in a specific country, or multinationals? Mostly multinationals and US based companies.

JohnFen 8y ago

> Very expensive, you have to check every single file, every single release, revision and part, you have to censor IP, you have to run everything by lawyers and PR departments etc. That is the way of the commercial enterprise. Every company I've worked for (and my own companies) has managed to do that exact thing in an economical way. The bulk of the work is in the initial creation of the document. From there on, only the changes have to be vetted.

oneplane 8y ago
I suppose it depends on the scope, size and IP involved. I do remember it being much faster and easier a while back when I was working with a smaller organisation. It's hard to switch back and forth between larger and smaller contexts, I guess the real point is that it's not always easy to see how hard/easy it is from the context where the problem is. Even een combination of occam's razor and hanlon's razor doesn't always give a direction on which to think or research. Are you mostly referring to companies in a specific country, or multinationals?
- JohnFen 8y ago
  > Are you mostly referring to companies in a specific country, or multinationals? Mostly multinationals and US based companies.