> 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.
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?
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.