Kiss Technology

Kiss Technology
Type	Subsidiary
Industry	entertainment technology
Founded	United States
Defunct	July 2005
Headquarters	United States
Parent	Cisco Systems
Website	www.kissnordic.dk

Kiss Technology is an entertainment technology company based in Denmark. It was acquired by Cisco Systems on July 22, 2005.[1]

In January 2004 the open-source MPlayer project accused the then Danish DVD player manufacturer, Kiss Technology, of marketing DVD players with firmware that included parts of MPlayer's GPL Licensed code. The implication was that Kiss was violating the GPL License, since Kiss did not release its firmware under the GPL license. The response from the managing director of Kiss, Peter Wilmar Christensen, offered as explanation of the similarities that the MPlayer team had in fact used code stolen from Kiss's firmware, while the release timeline of MPlayer and Kiss firmware does not support such a statement.[2]

Notes

"Cisco Agrees to Buy Video Recorder Maker". Los Angeles Times. July 23, 2005. Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose agreed to buy Kiss Technology for $61 million, setting up a battle with TiVo Inc. in the market for digital video recorders.
"MPLAYERHQ:HU _ THE MOVIE PLAYER FOR LINUX (via the Wayback Machine)". 2004-01-10. Archived from the original on 2004-04-09. Retrieved 2008-11-14.

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[1] "Cisco Agrees to Buy Video Recorder Maker". Los Angeles Times. July 23, 2005. Cisco Systems Inc. of San Jose agreed to buy Kiss Technology for $61 million, setting up a battle with TiVo Inc. in the market for digital video recorders.

[2] "MPLAYERHQ:HU _ THE MOVIE PLAYER FOR LINUX (via the Wayback Machine)". 2004-01-10. Archived from the original on 2004-04-09. Retrieved 2008-11-14.