That quote is Bucky in a nutshell.
I'm glad you see the connection between the three.
Car Hacker's Handbook is in the spirit of the free and open source software movement. The big proponents there are Richard Stallman and Eric S. Raymond. What do you think about this?
Eben Moglen has
quite a play list.
The world we live in today was created when Tim Berners-Lee set aside endless riches and put the intellectual property of HyperTextMarkupLanguage in the public domain.