My guess is to make their lives better lol.
Though, everyone might have other reasons... Like if someone they loved was ill, and they wish for them to get better.
It all depends on how quickly it spread, if it was to spread to a lot of people, and was life threatening or w/e... Then yea, I'd probably be smart and try to avoid it.
Hmm... Hard for me to say, as their are lots of music artists I like.
I can say though, that my favourite Genre is Trance.
But artist, I havn't a clue...
When it comes to Linux, I prefer Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Desktop.
It's the best working Linux distribution I've used, plus it has a lot of cool features. :)