Bullshit Bingo #1 – Agnostic

The word agnostic is often attached to a software or hardware product, or indeed an organisation, to mean that the software or hardware product, or organisation is open, that is (to use another bullshit bingo word) non-proprietary

For record, here’s the generally accepted definition of agnostic:

A person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

There is a word that will suffice, though. A word that was invented to convey the meaning people using agnostic in this context wish to convey. The word is: Neutral.

So don't use agnostic. You might as well use Mauve, or Gangly... or Twat.