Rome is able to raise VC funding because it's a product that doesn't exist yet.
Babel has the key advantage that you can actually use it now to do real work.
It's not unreasonable for the developers of a real, currently-existing product to want to be paid for the work that they're doing on it, rather than for some pie-in-the-sky business proposition.
Babel has the key advantage that you can actually use it now to do real work.
It's not unreasonable for the developers of a real, currently-existing product to want to be paid for the work that they're doing on it, rather than for some pie-in-the-sky business proposition.