It seems that Thomson's view on the matter has changed again.
Now they claim that the only targeted products were the commercially sold hardware mp3 decoders, not the free software decoders.

Read it here.

Most likely that open letter from Ogg Vorbis had something to do with this change of heart. (though they want to make it seem that it was us who were wrong from the beginning and who jumped to the wrong conclusions - sjeah right!)