It is very telling in many ways:
1) Timing: Obviously they started composing the article straight after seeing the CUSIP change AND fearing ANY positive news during the earnings release (only two days to go now), their way to get out is to hope others pick up the short position from them, or that they get a very last quick chance to pass on their short cheaply. The good thing is those traders that would sell on an article are very short term traders. They go in for hopefully quick gains and out again, meanwhile the writer obviously already went short before and is trying to get out, otherwise he would have shorted more himself, but he wants others to pick up the fire ball for a good reason!
2) Aspects attacked: Pathetic in terms of going back all the way to Corel where the followers already know that they followed much bigger plans then AND no attack on DELL, Novarad or MSFT. That became impossible, so they are obviously with that article hoping and going for first time quick readers on the stock. What do you think those who quickly went short based on that article will do when they read that there is so much more to Sphere 3D?? That the SA author conveniently "missed" to mention? Hmmm.... ;-)
Also, to say there is no direct legal Chesterfield School connection: We know they obviously work in some way with Google in the Chromebooks vertical, and JK even became a shareholder AND recommending the stock! Also, we know they work with Pearson, as even in many places UNDENIABLY indicated by major educational IT player Pearson on their own website! So...if Pearson was the re-seller/ co-ordinator for Glassware's implementation, just as a very simple example, then the school's legal relationship is with Pearson and ours with Pearson in turn, so of course no direct legal relationship between Chesterfield and Sphere 3D! How easy is that to see through? Say if you buy a car with airbags your legal relationship is with the car manufacturer, not the airbag manufacturer, no matter how important your airbag is!
So both main points (timing and attack points) CLEARLY point towards desperation...next week is going to be a VERY interesting week. :)