[hn_throwaway_99]

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.

[butterisgood]

Outlaw Techno Psomething

[fatkam]

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