"Object" and "orient" are ordinary English words; Alan Kay doesn't own either of them. He may have been the first to combine them as a single term, but he doesn

"Object" and "orient" are ordinary English words; Alan Kay doesn't own either of them. He may have been the first to combine them as a single term, but he doesn't own that either. (Or, did he trademark it or anyything? I doubt it.) That another definition of it than his came to be the dominant one is just the way things are, not in any way "a hoax".