Well why don't you look at them to find out why before you say stuff like that. It isn't exactly a fucking secret. It is quite small at the core and the rest of it is giving added value, like interaction with python, java etc and the large range of output formats etc. Just like a great many software solutions.

http://orgmode.org/cgit.cgi/org-mode.git/tree/lisp?id=5ef07d...