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diff --git a/lib/backends/backend.py b/lib/backends/backend.py
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+"""
+Backends can be a http service or xml-rpc service; let's say background threads providing an interface somewhere. They
+should run as background threads.
+
+Backends are absolutely no requirement for running Linspector.
+"""
+
+
+class Backend():
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        return
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