What is "Commodity Software"?

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What is "Commodity Software"? (Part of the title in the article at http://valgrind.org/docs/newsome2005.pdf)

(I'm not an english speaker, and the direct translation of "commodity" to my language does not make much sense to me in a software-context.)

An example would be appreciated!

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