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by hn_throwaway_99 847 days ago
The article itself has a blurb that says what it stands for:

> OTP stands for _Open Telecom Platform_, which is literally a meaningless name that was used to get the stuff open-sourced back in the old days of Erlang at Ericsson.

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Outlaw Techno Psomething
of course it has to, because no one knows about it... too bad they didnt use it in the title, because even with HN's highly limited title length, I think it would have fit