Barry has an article called Search Engine Guidelines Scare Webmasters that reffers to a thread at Search Engine Watch. I won’t discuss the thread here but the ideea behind.

Since when clean webmasters should fear “search engines” (read Google)? Between webmasters and search engines is a reciprocal relationship. They give us traffic and we give them content. It’s a win/win situation. But when search engines start making dictatorial rules (do this, do that, don’t dare to do that) webmasters should remember that one way or another, more or less, they have a public they can place their influence on and they could promote a much friendlier search engine.

No one has the right to tell webmasters with good “intent” what to do.

Google was promoted by webmasters and they should keep that in their minds