[brandonmenc]

"Commoditized" meaning "sold as a product?"

If you can produce more than one and sell it at a price people are willing to pay, it will be commoditized - right?

Particle colliders probably won't be commoditized; spacecraft will.

[T-A]

It usually means a product which can be bought from multiple providers, all largely equivalent in terms of features, and therefore primarily competing on price:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoditization

Crude oil and oil paintings signed by Pablo Picasso have both been known to be sold for money, but only one of them is a commodity.