trshaner wrote:
Quote from Tom Hogarty (Lightroom Project Manager) on May 6, 2013:
http://blogs.adobe.com/lightroomjournal/2013/05/lightroom-and-the-creative-cloud.html
Q. Will Lightroom become a subscription only offering after Lightroom 5?
A. Future versions of Lightroom will be made available via traditional perpetual licenses indefinitely.
Of course that doesn't negate Adobe from offering two Lightroom products with different feature sets (stripped down Elements boxed product and CC product with more features). Just a guess.
That quote is over a year old, I would be sleeping easier if it was dated May this year