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>Differentiated goods are priced based on value delivered.

I prefer “perceived utility” rather than “value delivered”.




hence the cost of linux centos (before being killed)

“value delivered”: same as RHEL

“perceived utility”: a path to RHEL subscription

Since the second is not true anymore for IBM, centos was converted to be less of a threat to RHEL by decreasing its delivered value, and offering a 'new' utility: kind of work like RHEL but please pay to get the full RHEL experience.


Sure, I enjoy semantic rhetoric as much as anyone does.




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