Old broken systems defined as "every UNIX platform in use today". Utopia is a nice place to shoot for, but we've got to live in the real world.
Well, the GNU Coding Standards aren't meant for `every UNIX platform in use today', it is meant for GNU and its variants. I just think its a little presumptious to be referring to /usr like it is an abnormal feature of a corner case OS. That corner case operating system is used world wide, and you (I assume so by your email address) work for a company that produces a variant of the GNU system. So it isn't presumptious at all, on the contrary... Happy hacking.
